Debates around concepts of well-being were initially precipitated within the philosophy of ethics, particularly around moral ways of conducting oneself and how this might assist in leading a ‘happy’ or ‘satisfying’ means of existence.Later, sociologists approached it from the individual and subjective perspective, where an individual constructs ‘wellness’ and ‘well-being’, but within the constraints of wider social structures such as the onset of modern communities and public discourses around, for example, ethics and living.