"Health and Yoga (B.A. - First Year, Semester - 2) (New Syllabus)"

"Health and Yoga (B.A. - First Year, Semester - 2) (New Syllabus)"

If someone is asked to define the concept of health,

he will say quickly without wasting even a minute to say

that “Health is the absence of disease.” The implicit

assumptions about concept of health are that it is the

state that exists when various disease conditions are

absent and that the manner in which health can be

promoted consist of defining, studying, understanding

and finally treating or preventing various diseases. This

definition has been rejected by a large number of health

educators. Various efforts are being done by experts to

re-define the concept of health in far positive terms. In

this chapter, an attempt have been done to define the

concept of health and it’s various aspects.