Healthy Lifestyle - 6 Health Dimensions

Physical

It is an ability of human body structure to function properly.

Levels of physical fitness are determined by interacting genetic, environmental and individual factors. It is also affected by many interacting variables such as age, sex, diet, disease, stress, sleep, physical activity, medical and dental services, and by one’s lifecycle and lifestyle. A physically fit person can carry out usual daily activities

without undue fatigue and has enough energy to enjoy leisure time and to meet common emergencies.

Social

It is the ability to interact with other individuals. Social deprivation - intellectual, emotional, ethical, and spiritual - and prolonged exposure to social pathology and poverty may seriously impede the actualization of the individual’s constructive potentialities.

Mental

Ability to process information and act properly.

Emotional

Ability to cope, adjust, and adapt

Spiritual

It is the belief in some force or dynamic other than humans.

Human health involves a struggle to achieve a meaningful relationship with the universe and life. To ignore humankind’s

psychospiritual nature in developing models of health, would

be to deal with a dehumanized caricature.

Environmental

It comprises of

(i) External: one’s surroundings, (e.g., habitat,

occupation)

(ii) Internal: an individual’s internal structure

(e.g., genetics)