What is Health
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Health, What is health?
How can health be defined? Many individuals, and health professions have come up with their own definitions of health. But the most and classic definition of health is adopted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) which states the health is 'a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence or infirmity (Crisp & Taylor 2003, p.2).Another good definition which is similar to the WHO definition of health is by Pericle of the Ancient Greece who states that health was 'the state of moral, mental and physical well-being which enables a man to face any crisis in life with the utmost facilityand grace'(Blower 1978, p.48). Defining health is quite tricky for some individuals and it is a very hard thing to measure, but it is one of life's most precious things. Health is a very strong term which involves many things, within itself comes little categories such as the 'dimensions' which make up health and more or less simplifies the term. It makes it easier in this manner, to define and understand the effects of it and how it contributes to one's life...