Learn more

By David Owens Health is a positive construct which exists along a spectrum. Almost all of us have the capacity to be healthier. Too often, narratives around health focus on metrics of disease. Conversations around cancer treatment, the incidence of heart disease or the numbers of hospitals and intensive care beds are reflective of a disease-based health model. Health is not the opposite of disease. The World Health Organization (WHO) definition of health is a state of physical, psychological and social well-being, not the absence of disease. I have always been a fan of this holistic, positive…

cuu