Tamen Haddad-Garcia

It's your sensation.

It's up to you to decide whether...

you would rate it as such or not, right?

And sometimes people bring up the question like, well, what if your doctor tells you you're not healthy?

This is where we bring up the point that making a decision with your healthcare professional is really important, that it's important to take into consideration what your healthcare professionals and what people around you are telling you.

But at the same time, you need to decide what role and how much of a role you play

in your health.

There's actually a really significant association between levels of positive health and active involvement in the decision-making process regarding your health.

So you can't actually be wrong, but you should definitely pay attention to what your healthcare providers are saying and play an active role in what you do after that.

And we've actually asked this to millions of people.

And so we've asked them this question.

And then we have a couple follow-up questions that have been really illuminating.

And the first question that you should ask after you assess your health is, why do you consider your health to be at that level?

And many times when you're sick, your answer could actually be, well, I don't consider myself to have very positive health right now because my energy levels are low or because I have a headache or because it could be for more specific reasons.

And then the follow up question is, what do you need to do to maintain or improve your level of health?

right so from then you can start to that starts to help to parse out what are the actual challenges what is actually making you rate your health as poor or fair so that you can then take steps to improve that right and it is it does fluctuate as you're saying what about people if if this ever happens what about people who are not healthy but claim they are who believe they are but aren't

And it's actually really interesting because healthy is really a judgment for yourself, right?

You can have diseases but still feel healthy.

Data from around the world have shown consistently, actually, that around 75% to 86% of people with a single disease, like diabetes or arthritis, actually consider their health to be positive.

And so do 50% of people with three diseases.