health - How Do You Know What You Mean?

Are you salutary - or just not Sick? If this sounds like a trivial question, then but how do you riposte it? isn't it captivating that we can honestly and specifically talk about our Ill-health at length, but we can't talk about condition in a way that evokes unambiguous understanding of what is meant? Does it even matter if there is a definition of the rather amorphous term? Well - we wouldn't dare to go and see a doctor in absence of a "symptom" - an irregularity of your "normal" look or feeling? Of course not, health-care systems do not care about Health, they care about the mending  manifest diversions from the "Normal" condition. In other words, health-care should be more aptly referred to as "sick-care", because the principles has no answers for the Healthy. Consequently, the definition of "sick" is rather obvious, it is the descriptive or experienced discount of normal corporeal or reasoning condition or function. There are many different ways of expression, but the essence is unequivocally the same.

Now try to define "Health" and "being healthy" by a term that evokes a universally equivalent understanding. Obviously a challenge, most dictionaries confine the term as something like "the absence of disease". But isn't there much more to condition than the absence of an identifiable ailment? Apart from evident corporeal Health, what about more concealed reasoning Health, Emotional Health, Spiritual Health, social Health, Intellectual condition - isn't all that valuable to a state of well being? But does that mean "Health" is the absence of any and all (perceived) problems and concerns - would then "Health" be synonymous with Happiness? Even reduced to corporeal condition there is a wide spectrum of ambiguity, if you feel tired or fatigued - are you sick or are you healthy? Is weight gain a disease or just a sign of hedonism? Are you ill because you need reading glasses? What about wrinkles and sagging skin - is aging a disease? This plan open a Pandora's box: what is the normal rate of aging - where is - and who is the authority for setting the benchmark for "normal"?

Health

Are you honestly or relatively Healthy?

health - How Do You Know What You Mean?

Researchers at Rice University have tried to define the parameters for measuring Health. They terminate that condition is measured in terms of

l) absence of corporeal pain, corporeal disability, or a condition that is likely to cause death

2) emotional well-being, and

3) satisfactory social functioning.

But they admit that there is no particular suitable of estimation of condition status of Individuals or Groups, which may be assessed by an observer. It follows that "Health" assessed in this way is relative and subjective, while what we honestly want to know is:

Am I honestly salutary - objectively measured, not subjectively assumed by relative comparison with Others. We don't compare our pain or disfigurement with the neighbors arthritis or cancer. Quite the opposite: we visualize and strive to look as young and slim as the person on the cover of a magazine. Such natural cravings are the very foundation of an ever growing attractiveness and Anti-Aging industry, even in absence of objective standards.

That is exactly the point: if we can't define condition but only Ill-health - we'll never look like that Idol no matter what! Because if we part our condition by its weaning, we'll wait to act until we can define the symptoms, thereby depriving ourselves from gaining and sustaining utmost Vitality and remarkable Appearance.

If we result in establishing a globally valid definition for absolute condition - we can honestly begin to supply of real Health-care, that is caring for the preservation - or revival of the benchmark Health.

References:

Rice University: estimation of condition Status

Knowing how salutary you are

health - How Do You Know What You Mean?