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Health, Happiness and Health Promotion
Author(s) -
ALLMARK PETER
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of applied philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.339
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1468-5930
pISSN - 0264-3758
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5930.2005.00288.x
Subject(s) - happiness , health promotion , promotion (chess) , sociology , the good life , environmental ethics , epistemology , psychology , social psychology , political science , philosophy , health care , law , politics
This article claims that health promotion is best practised in the light of an Aristotelian conception of the good life for humans and of the place of health within it.