Health is elusive to define and ways of thinking about it have evolved over the years. Three leading approaches include the "medical model", the "holistic model", and the "wellness model". This evolution has been reflected in changing ways to measure health. The medical model is a biopsychosocial model assessing a patient's problems and matching them to the diagnostic construct using pattern recognition of clinical features. Environmental health is the branch of public health that: focuses on the relationships between people and their environment; promotes human health and well-being; and fosters healthy and safe communities. Holistic health is an approach to life that considers multidimensional aspects of wellness. It encourages individuals to recognize the whole person: physical, mental, emotional, social, intellectual, and spiritual.
This is based on emotional achievement theory, it states that high achievers usually motivated and focus on achieving their goals. Unlike low achievers who like to avoid failures
