Psychological Aspect of Women's Health

The use of the word “health” to describe human “well being” is relative. The word health is originated from the old English word “health”, which means a state of bier and was generally used to infer a “soundness of body' (Dolfman, 1973). Health is defined in terms of an absence of objective sign indicating that body is not functioning properly, such as indices of high blood pressure and subjective symptoms of disease or injury such as pain or nausea (Birren & Jarit, 1985; Thoresen, 1984). A healthy person is one who is able to live at relative peace with himself and with his neighbours who, when these basic functions are accomplished still has energy left over to make further contribution to the society in which he lives. Mental health is an important but elusive concept that still has no single definition acceptable to everyone. Psychiatrist and psychologist, have been dissatisfied with this way of looking at mental health. It is now recognized by World Health Organisation (WHO) that health is positive term. On the basis of preliminary reports of White House Conference Bernard (1970) has defined mental health as “the adjustment of individual to themselves and the world at large with the maximum of effectiveness, satisfaction, cheerfulness and socially considerable behaviour and ability of facing and accepting the realities of life”.