Health Discussion
Having considered factors that influence health it is important to give consideration to the concept of health and its relationship to health promotion.
Health is a difficult concept to define and this exercise will help you to gain an insight into the different definitions of health, health promotion and how this impacts on a community approach to health promotion.
Definitions of health can be influenced by culture, religious beliefs, age, gender, and education and life experiences. Individual health beliefs can also change during a person's lifetime due to life experiences and therefore individual definitions may also change. Likewise definitions of health promotion can vary and may also reflect life experiences, work, education and professional training
Your definition of health
This should take about 5 minutes
Using your own words, on paper write down your definition of health.