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So
much has been written in recent years on wellness and health that
the two are often thought of as the same. In fact, they are
distinctly different: whereas “health” can be viewed as a snapshot
of a person’s condition, “wellness” is an ongoing process. While
health is measured at a particular point in time by such benchmarks
as height, weight, muscle tone and heart rate, wellness is a state
of being that is determined by physical, mental and social
characteristics that evolve over a lifetime. ...
The
challenges our health system faces are clearly winnable once we
divert more of our resources upstream, and begin thinking in terms
of incremental, rather than absolute goals. Although both will
require major paradigm shifts, we should be inspired by the words of
Albert Einstein, whose insights changed the way we think about many
things: “the significant problems we face cannot be solved with the
same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” |
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