About Health

In 1948, at the creation time of World Health Organization, health was defined as "state of complete physical, social, and mental well-being and merely no absence of infirmity or disease". Definition invited the nations to expand conceptual framework of health system beyond the issues related to physical condition of individuals as well as their diseases and is motivated to focus our attention on what we call now social determinants of health. WHO challenged academic, political, professional and community organizations that devoted to improve health to make scope of work explicit, including rational for allocating the resources.

 

Only handfuls of publications have especially focused on definition of health as well as its evolution in first 6 decades. In year 1986, WHO in Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion is said that health is "resource for everyday life, and is not objective of living, while health is positive concept emphasizing personal and social resources and physical capacities." Classification system as WHO family of international classification, which is composed of international classification of functioning, health and disability and international classification of diseases also defined the health.

 

Physical fitness is said to be the health of body, it is result of regular exercise, proper nutrition and diet, as well as proper rest for the physical recovery. Strong indicator of health of localized population is weight or average height; it generally increases improved health care and nutrition care. It is also influenced by standard of quality life and living.

 

Genetics plays a major role in the height of people. Personal health also depends on partially social structure of one's life, while maintenance of a strong social relationship is also linked to a good health conditions, productivity, longevity and positive attitude. It is due to fact that is positive social interaction viewed by participant increases many chemical levels in brain with are linked with intelligence and personality trails.