"The World Health Organization describes wellness as not merely the absence of disease, but rather a state that transcends the absence of disease and approaches optimum psychological, physical, spiritual, and social health. The history of optimizing health dates to the ancient Greeks. The fifth-century B.C. text On Regimen, authored by Hippocrates and his students, is likely the authoritative reference that described specific means of obtaining optimum health."
"Each of these pioneering books viewed optimizing the functional integrity of psychological, physical, spiritual, and social health as its goals, with the latter three breaking wellness into functional components. But one other pioneering text had the courage to break through the glass ceiling of compartmentalized functional health as a goal and dared to suggest that a more holistic goal should be pursued-long"
Wellness is defined by the World Health Organization as a state that transcends absence of disease and approaches optimum psychological, physical, spiritual, and social health. The pursuit of optimized health traces to ancient Greece, where fifth-century B.C. guidance described specific means for obtaining optimum health. In 1973 health thinking introduced a two-epoch framework: Epoch A focused on absence of disease, while Epoch B emphasized pursuit of optimum health beyond mere lack of illness. Late-20th-century wellness initiatives included a widely marketed college stress-management approach focused on stress, a best-selling running-focused work, and a 1985 occupational health promotion resource that lacked an integrating framework. An alternative approach proposed a holistic goal beyond compartmentalized functional health.
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