Tour 111 Chapter 1

• A resource for everyday life, not the objective of living.

  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 positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources

  as well as physical capabilities.

  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
• 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
• Health comes from the Old English word

  ■ “A state of being sound and whole”

  Hoelth
• emphasizes idea that health is more than just the absence of disease

  WHO
• a condition with multiple dimensions that falls on a continuum from

  negative to positive health, and your position on the continuum is always changing.

  Health
• The Health Continuum

  Premature Death

  Serious Illness

  Chronic Disease

  Minor/ Short Term Illness

  No symptoms

  Optimum Health
• Broader and more complex concept than health

  Quality Of Life
• Quality Of Life 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
• added spiritual well-being and social and cultural well-being.

  Smith and Puczko (2012)
• They believed that tourists feel part of a temporary community when they are traveling.

  Smith and Puczko (2012)
• Tourists may also pay more attention

  to the environment, esp. if they are

  ecotourists or traveling to beautiful/

  fragile locations.

  Smith and Puczko (2012)
• “Elusive” term to define

  Happiness
• According to _____: “There is no simple formula for finding

  happiness”

  Gilbert (2007)
• He 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.

  Martin Seligman (2003)
• _____suggests that happiness comes from within.

  Haidt (2006)
• _______ 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.

  Dalai Lama (1999) 
• • acceptance and collectivism

  East
• encourages striving and

  individualism

  West
• They are often considered as one of the happiest

  people in the world, partly because of their practice of

  meditation and mindfulness.

  Buddhist
• Dalai Lama 4 Factors of fulfillment

  • wealth

  •worldly satisfaction

  •spirituality

  •enlightenment
• 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.

  Well-being
• 8 wellness

  •financial

  •social

  •physical

  •intellectual

  •emotional

  •occupational

  •environmental

  •spiritual
• 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
• Wellness is

  • multi-dimensional

  • holistic

  • changing over time and continually

  • individual, but influenced by the

  environment

  • self-responsibility
• more personalized concept than health

  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

  Key characteristics of wellness
• 6 dimensions in wellness

  ■ Physical

  ■ Emotional

  ■ Intellectual

  ■ Social

  ■ Spiritual

  ■ Environmental
• 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
• the average number of years

  people born in a given year are expected to live

  life expectancy
• ! Superior health helps, but it does not guarantee

  longevity—that is, a long life

  ! The goal is not only more years but more

  healthy years

  Quality of Life
• It seems as if everyone has some kind of cancer. Is

  cancer now the leading cause of death for Americans?

  No, heart disease
• What is the leading cause of death for young adults

  like most college students?

  accident, assaults, homicide, suicide