Abstract

Health is more than the absence of illness. Health and illness co-exist dynamically interwoven in the life process. Health is (also) the result of a process of experience and interpretation and is, therefore, individual. In a multi-stage survey with patients and practitioners, the Dutch general practitioner Dr Machtelt Huber identified the dimensions of meaning, mental well-being, social participation, coping with everyday life and quality of life, which must be considered in addition to physical functioning and are each weighted differently

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