Is a 29-year-old winner of the wheelchair division of The Seattle Marathon healthier then an obese 22-year-old video game player?
Is a competitive triathlete taking a cholesterol-lowering medication healthy?
Is there such a thing as a healthy 75-year-old? How about a healthy 90-year-old?
Can health be measured?
Is it necessary to feel healthy to be healthy?
If you don’t have a strong working definition of health, the answers to these questions will be both difficult and inconsistent.
In addition, if you work in the healthcare industry and you don’t have a solid definition of health, it will also be limiting – especially considering the digital wave which is about to hit, with new entrants into the market, such as Apple, Google, and Amazon.
Spend time, both personally and organizationally, clarifying your definition of health, because it is the industry you are part of.
It will be worth it.