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Health and Well-Being

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: The concepts of health and well-being are deeply intertwined and interdependent. Situating both health and well-being within a unified framework is important to ensure their inclusion in the full spectrum of health research and to achieve the crucial task of building a body of basic, translational, and clinical studies to guide the implementation of whole-person health care. This commentary proposes such a framework where an individual's own assessment of their physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being complements objective measures of their physical and psychological function and where social, environmental, economic, educational, and vocational well-being are located within positive determinants of health.

Source: Medical Care

DOI: 10.1097/mlr.0000000000002061

Author: Helene M. Langevin

Institutions: National Institutes of Health, National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health

Language: English

Topic: Health, psychology, and well-being

Subfield: General Health Professions

Field: Health Professions

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W4404166173