experiential health

functional health

is freedom from illness and alienation and the capacity for human development, including self-discovery, self-actualization, and transcendence from alienating social circumstance.

Experiential health' entails freedom from illness and alienation and the capacity for human development, including self-discovery, self-actualization, and transcendence from alienating social circumstances. Whereas 'functional health' is an inevitable component of social life under capitalism, 'experiential health' tended to occur in many simple preindustrial societies and could theoretically occur again under modern societies based upon egalitarian social relations.

is a state of optimum capacity to perform roles within society, particularly within the context of capitalism, to carry out productive work that contributes to profit-making.

Sander Kelman views health within the context of a system of production (1975). He makes a distinction between 'functional health' and 'experiential health.' The former he defines as a state of optimum capacity to perform roles within society, particularly within the context of capitalism, to carry out productive work that contributes to profit-making.

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