Health is created and lived by people within the settings of their everyday life: where they learn, work, play and love. Health is created by caring for oneself and others, by being able to make decisions and have control over one's life circumstances, and by ensuring that the society one lives in creates conditions that allow the attainment of health by all its members.
Source: Quoted in Davy, J., Parker, R. & Patterson, J. 1994. Health Moves 2: Senior Personal Development, Health and Physical Education, Heinemann, Port Melbourne, Vic., p. 445.
This definition reflects a very broad view of health. In contrast, many generations of Australians have grown up with the narrow view that health is simply the absence of disease. The definition above suggests that health consists of many dimensions, including the personal physical dimension that most people associate with the term 'health'.
Different writers/researchers in the field of health describe the dimensions of health in different ways. Some refer only to individual or personal health, while others also include environmental and/or community dimensions. The Dimensions of personal health include: the physical, emotional, intellectual/mental, social and spiritual.
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