Tour 111 Chapter 1

• Health - The extent to which an individual or a group is able to realize and satisfy needs, and to change or cope with the environment.
• Health - A resource for everyday life, not the objective of living.
• Health - A positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources as well as physical capabilities.
• Health - Freedom from the risk of disease and untimely death.
• Health - People’s ability to perform family, work and community roles.
• Health - One’s ability to deal with physical, biological, psychological and social stress.
• Health - Extent to which they experience feelings of well-being.
• Health - State of equilibrium with their environment.
• Health comes from the Old English word hoelth.

  “A state of being sound and whole”
• WHO emphasizes idea that health is more than just the absence of disease
• Health - a condition with multiple dimensions that falls on a continuum from negative to positive health, and your position on the continuum is always changing.
• Quality of life - Broader and more complex concept than health
• Quality of life - Combines both objective and subjective elements
• Quality of life - Include the following domains:

  • health

  • work and productivity

  • material well-being

  • feeling part of one’s local community

  • personal safety

  • quality of environment

  • emotional well-being

  • relationship with family and friends
• Smith and Puczko (2012), added spiritual well-being and social and cultural well-being.
• Smith and Puczko - They believed that tourists feel part of a temporary community when they are traveling.
• Quality of life - Tourists may also pay more attention to the environment, esp. if they are ecotourists or traveling to beautiful/ fragile locations.
• Tourists may also pay more attention to the environment, esp. if they are ecotourists or traveling to beautiful/ fragile locations.
• Happiness is an ? term to define - Elusive
• According to Gilbert (2007): “There is no simple formula for finding happiness”
• Martin Seligman (2003), defined it as both positive feelings such as ecstasy and comfort and positive activities that have no feeling component at all such as absorption and engagement.
• Haidt (2006) suggests that happiness comes from within.
• Dalai Lama (1999) states that happiness is determined more by the state of one’s mind than by one’s external conditions, circumstances or events- at least when one’s basic survival needs are met.
• East - acceptance and collectivism
• West - encourages striving and individualism
• Buddhists are often considered as one of the happiest people in the world, partly because of their practice of meditation and mindfulness.
• The Dalai Lama even recognizes the importance of achieving material stability or comfort first in these four factors of fulfillment: wealth; worldly satisfaction; spirituality and enlightenment
• Well being - More than just happiness. It means developing as a person, being fulfilled, and making a contribution to the community.
• Well being - This definition takes the discussion beyond the transformation of the individual through self-development and personal fulfillment towards a sense of social responsibility.
• Wellness - Defined by Myers et al. (2000) as being a way of life, oriented towards optimal health and well- being in which the mind, body and spirit are integrated by the individual to live more fully within the human and natural community.
• Wellness is:

  • multi-dimensional

  • holistic

  • changing over time and continually

  • individual, but influenced by the environment

  • self-responsibility
• Wellness - more personalized concept than health
• Key characteristics of wellness:

  • Clearly defined dimensions
  • Active process
  • Individual responsibility and choice are critical components
  • Reflects status of one’s perceptions of their own health and well-being
• What are the six dimensions in our wellness:

  • Physical
  • Emotional
  • Intellectual
  • Social
  • Spiritual
  • Environmental
• Physical wellness - The complete physical condition and functioning of the body.
• Physical wellness - Both the visible aspects, such as how fit one looks, and those that are not, such as blood pressure and bone density
• Physical Wellness - Reflected in your ability to accomplish your daily activities and to care for yourself
• Physical Wellness - Regular physical activity and healthy eating are the foundation behaviors of _______, but they are just a beginning
• Physical Fitness - the ability to carry out daily tasks with vigor and alertness, without undue fatigue, and with ample energy to enjoy leisure- time pursuits and respond to emergencies,
• Physical fitness - Closely relates to wellness and quality of life but also has measurable components