Open AccessPromoting Healthy Lifestyle among College Students
Author(s) -
Miguel A. Pérez
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
revista de la facultad de medicina humana
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2308-0531
pISSN - 1814-5469
DOI - 10.25176/rfmh.v22i2.4784
Subject(s) - mental health , socioeconomic status , function (biology) , balance (ability) , social determinants of health , psychology , focus (optics) , gerontology , physical health , disease , social psychology , medicine , public health , psychiatry , population , environmental health , nursing , physics , pathology , evolutionary biology , neuroscience , optics , biology
Mr. Editor The World Health Organization defines health as “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”. This definition, first proposed in 1948, has evolved and currently includes more domains than those originally cited by the WHO. In fact, contemporary definitions of health focus on the person’s ability to deal with life’s demands through a balance between the absence of disease and impairment, and their ability to function in their social and physical environments. Regardless of the definition employed, human health does not exist in a vacuum, as it represents the total socioeconomic realities of the person.