The main concepts and definition of health: The ability of a person to adapt to his environment.
The definition of health was formulated by the World Health Organization and sounds like this: “Health is not just the absence of disease, but a state of physical, mental and social well-being”.
In the general concept of health, two components are distinguished: spiritual health and physical health.
A person’s spiritual health is the system of his understanding and his attitude towards the world around him. It depends on the ability to build relationships with other people, the ability to analyze the situation, to predict the development of various situations and, in accordance with this, to build the patterns of one’s behavior.
Spiritual and moral health has one of the fundamental meanings for the person, the family, the society and the state.
Spiritual health is ensured and achieved through the ability to live in harmony with oneself, with relatives, friends and society.
Such a state of the spiritual sphere of the person, allowing it to transform reality in accordance with the moral, cultural and religious values to preserve the life of the person and the world as a whole.
The spiritual sphere of the personality is the area of ideals and values, which represent orientations of all life activity. These ideals and values can be different in terms of moral criteria and relate to both good and evil.
Moral health is determined by those principles that are the basis for the social life of human society.
Social health is a state of a person’s social activity towards the world, his ability to establish and maintain social connections and relationships. The qualitative content of this social activity, the level of its constructiveness or destructiveness is determined by the level of the spiritual health of the person.
And while the process of change in physical health is only in a downward curve, in spiritual (social and mental) it changes unevenly, going through ups and downs more than once.
So the overall state of health turns out to be difficult to achieve and is very unstable over time due to the variability of all these forms of health. The state of absolute health in the human being is a rare phenomenon and is more of an ideal than a real phenomenon.
The person’s idea of health is a reflection of the existing theoretical models of health in society.
Harmonic model of health – based on the understanding of health as harmony between man and the world.
Adaptation model for health – similar to the first, but with an emphasis on the mechanisms of adaptation to the changing conditions of the internal and external biosocial environment.
Anthropocentric model of human health – based on the idea of the higher (spiritual) purpose of man and, accordingly, the leading role of spiritual health among all components of this multifaceted phenomenon.
Man is recognized as having limitless possibilities for the improvement of his inner peace, and, as a consequence, for the qualitative improvement of his physical and social health.
Illustration: Preserved frescoes in the church of St. Georgi in the village of Oreshets – Belogradchik spiritual district, Bulgaria.
