HOLISTIC APPROACH ON HEALTH AND WELLNESS

HOLISTIC APPROACH ON HEALTH AND WELLNESS

Prof (Dr) Anup Kumar Das, Md (Hom).

Department Of Community Medicine

Rajkot Homoeopathic Medical College, Parul University

Abstract; The holistic concept of health is contained in the expression of wholeness. Health is a relative state in which one is able to function well physically, mentally, socially, and spiritually to express the full range of one's unique potentialities within the environment in which one lives.

Key Word: Health, wellness, Holistic.

Introduction: Healthcare costs are escalating as people are living longer than ever before. Simultaneously, there is a growing interest and emphasis on wellness within Canadian, as well as other cultures, to examine the factors that make population’s well. This article summarizes wellness constructs from a holistic perspective and reviews definitions and conceptualizations of holistic wellness within current literature. (1)

Wellness from a holistic perspective: In 2008, the World Health Organization stated that the dominant view of wellness is one that is holistic and includes both an absence of illness and a state of wellbeing. Traditionally wellness has considered only the absence of negative elements (illness and disease) whereas this newer holistic perspective strives to recognize the presence of positive elements. The most common definitions of wellness create a framework that views individuals within a holistic perspective and consists of many dimensions. Human wellness includes, among others things, mind, body, spirit, and community interactions, and the many dimensions of wellness are all interconnected, whereas the healthcare system still has a tendency to approach them separately.(2)