Health

"Health is not (yet) a clearly defined construct. It is produced, constructed and organised individually and socially. General classification proposals systematise health as a delimitation concept, functional statement or normative, value-oriented setting. The most important value-based health definition to date is that of the WHO of 1948. Its core features are presented in this guiding concept (positive health, multidimensionality, detachment from the narrow references of biomedical perspectives and care systems) and critically discussed. Newer approaches for interdisciplinary applicable definitions are analysed. Hurrelmann's integrative health definition derived from them, which is oriented towards the model of productive reality processing, is also presented and classified. The significance of relative and functional health (according to ICF) is also elaborated. Reflections on the definitional, professional and care policy weakness of the concept of health in competition with the still dominantly used concept of disease conclude the guiding concept."