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 Health is a complex concept and is difficult to define. Many different definitions and understandings exist.

 Understandings of health differ according to experience and expertise. Factors such as age, social class and gender impact on these. Theoretical perspectives about health can aid our understandings of subjective health experience.

 Lay and expert understandings of health may differ but both are central to developing understandings about what health is, how it may be explored and how it may be maintained.