Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Title
Journal of Global Health
Volume
12
First Page
03058
PubMed ID
36065526
Publisher
ISOGH
School
Centre for Precision Health / School of Business and Law
RAS ID
45482
Funders
Dr Jun Wen’s High-Achieving Researcher Scheme Funding 2021 from Edith Cowan University
Dr Danni Zheng’s National Natural Science Foundation of China [72102045]
Centre for Precision Health HDR Student Award ECU (2021-02406-GUO)
ZG and YZ were supported by the Edith Cowan University Higher Degree by Research Scholarship (ECU-HDR ST10468211 and ST10469322)
Abstract
The COVID-19 outbreak has posed tremendous threats to both global health and individuals’ psychological and physiological well-being. Scholars across the social and medical sciences are calling for multidisciplinary research regarding how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected global health [1]. As daily stressors continue to accumulate, the number of people reporting health complaints that cannot be detected by laboratory measures is on the rise [2,3]. These conditions can be complex and challenging to define but are generally deemed as “suboptimal health” [4]. Suboptimal health status (SHS) refers to a reversible state between health and illness [2]. It is characterized by health concerns (eg, back pain, headache, chronic fatigue) and constellations of symptoms (eg, anxiety, depression) that can affect one’s cardiovascular system [3,5,6], digestive system [7], immune system [4,8], and mental status [9,10]. Guidance from traditional Chinese medicine as reported by the China Association of Chinese Medicine suggests that SHS also hinders one’s adaptability, physiological state, and vitality [11].
DOI
10.7189/jogh.12.03058
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Comments
Guo, Z., Wen, J., Zheng, D., Yulu, Z., Hou, H., Wang, W., & Suboptimal Health Study Consortium. (2022). Proposing an avenue for suboptimal health research through the lens of tourism. Journal of Global Health, 12.
https://doi.org/10.7189/jogh.12.03058