Introduction of Health & Wellness

• 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


  One's ability to deal with physical, biological, psychological and social stress.
• Negative health

  • Illness and premature death
• Positive health

  • Capacity to enjoy life and withstand life's challenges
• Quality of life - Combines both objective and subjective elements including health, work and productivity, material well-being, etc.
• Happiness


  Elusive term to define.
• Well-being


  More than just happiness. Making a contribution to the community
• Wellness


  A way of life.
• Wellness is a more personalized concept than health
• Six dimensions of wellness

  • Physical, Emotional, Intellectual, Social, Spiritual, Environmental
• Physical wellness


  The complete physical condition and functioning of the body.
• 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 usually requires exercise: planned, structured, repetitive body movements
• Emotional wellness


  One's ability to manage and express emotions in constructive and appropriate ways.
• Qualities associated with emotional wellness

  • Optimism, Enthusiasm, Trust, Self-confidence, Self-acceptance, Resiliency, Self-esteem
• Intellectual wellness


  The ability to think logically and solve problems in order to meet life's challenges successfully.
• Social wellness


  The ability to develop and maintain positive, healthy, satisfying interpersonal relationships and appropriate support networks like family, friends, and community
• Spiritual wellness


  Having a set of guiding beliefs, principles, or values that provide meaning and direction in life, like compassion, forgiveness, altruism, tolerance, love. Sense of belonging to something greater than oneself
• Environmental wellness


  One's wellness and the condition and livability of one's surroundings are interdependent.
• Medical tourism has been popularly used in German-speaking environments
• Life expectancy


  The average number of years people born in a given year are expected to live.
• Reasons for increased life expectancy include vaccinations, hygiene, less tobacco use, and vehicle safety
• In the developed world, women live 5–10 years longer than men
• Quality of life


  • 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
• Cancer is the leading cause of death for many age groups, but heart disease is still the number-one killer of Americans
• Risk factors


  • Factors that increase your susceptibility for the development, onset, or progression of a disease or injury
  • Some can be changed (smoking); others can't (age)
• • Obesity is an important underlying cause of many chronic diseases
  • Ranked near the top of actual causes of death in the United States
• • Back pain and allergies top the list among college students
• • Genes are just one factor in disease risk and overall health status.
• Health comes from the Old English word hoelth
• According to Smith and Puczko (2012), added spiritual well-being and social and cultural well-being. Believed that tourists feel part of a temporary community when they are traveling.
• 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
• 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.
• Different Approaches towards Happiness:

  • East - acceptance and collectivism • West - encourages striving and individualism
• Buddhists


  one of the happiest people in the world
• Buddhists practice of meditation and mindfulness.
• 4 factors of fulfillment according to Dalai Lama:

  (1) wealth; (2) worldly satisfaction; (3) spirituality and (4) enlightenment
• Wellness is...

  (1) m​ulti-dimensional, (2) holistic, (3) changing over time and continually, (4) individual but influenced by the environment, and (5) requires self-responsibility