Dimensions of Health
There are four major dimensions of health included in the WHO definitions of health—
- Physical health
- Mental health
- Social health
Besides these, many more can be cited e.g.
- Emotional
- Vocational
- Philosophical
- Cultural
- Socio-economical
- Environmental
- Political
- Educational
- Nutritional
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Famous quotes containing the words dimensions of, dimensions and/or health:
“Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It seems to me that we do not know nearly enough about ourselves; that we do not often enough wonder if our lives, or some events and times in our lives, may not be analogues or metaphors or echoes of evolvements and happenings going on in other people?—or animals?—even forests or oceans or rocks?—in this world of ours or, even, in worlds or dimensions elsewhere.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)
“The sick man is taken away by the institution that takes charge not of the individual, but of his illness, an isolated object transformed or eliminated by technicians devoted to the defense of health the way others are attached to the defense of law and order or tidiness.”
—Michel de Certeau (1925–1986)