Health and Wellbeing can be seen as embracing the whole person both physically and psychologically, with a combination of absence of poor health and disease alongside an overall feeling of wellness physically, emotionally and psychologically.
A person’s health is connected with their wellbeing although how they are related is not completely clear. Wellbeing underpins a persons life (Gov, 2020).
Although people’s assessment of their health is associated with their assessment of their overall life satisfaction, the relationship between health and wellbeing is not clear cut. (WHO, 2020)
The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines health as
‘Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.’ (WHO, 2020)
References
Gov (2020) available at Wellbeing and Health available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/wellbeing-and-health (accessed 01.10.2020)
World Health Organisation (WHO) 2020 Constitution available at https://www.who.int/about/who-we-are/constitution accessed 01.10.2020