Health Continuum

• Health is a continually changing process. It can be represented as a continuum, with optimum health or a positive state of well-being at one end and very poor health or being extremely unwell at the other end.
• How do we consider if a person has “good” health?

  In order to assess where a person exists on the health continuum, we have to take into consideration the dimensions of health and choose an appropriate benchmark. Due to the multiple factors that contribute to health, and its relative and dynamic nature, the concept of “good” health is hard to define
• How do we consider if a person has “good” health?

  In order to assess where a person exists on the health continuum, we have to take into consideration the dimensions of health and choose an appropriate benchmark. Due to the multiple factors that contribute to health, and its relative and dynamic nature, the concept of “good” health is hard to define