Hodges' model: A prompt for debate in defining Health & Well-being

WHO definition of Health

"Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."

The Definition has not been amended since 1948.

individual

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic --------------------------------  mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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group-population

mental disease infirmity	physical disease infirmity
social disease? infirmity?	political? disease? infirmity?

The correct bibliographic citation for the definition is: 

Preamble to the Constitution of the World Health Organization as adopted by the International Health Conference, New York, 19-22 June, 1946; signed on 22 July 1946 by the representatives of 61 States (Official Records of the World Health Organization, no. 2, p. 100) and entered into force on 7 April 1948.

See also: Wikipedia - Health (as a human condition)

Text source: https://www.who.int/about/who-we-are/constitution