Contemporary debates about well-being have also produced an increasing array of literature and research as well as policy discourse.
Much of this problematizes concepts of well-being since initial references were made to it by the World Health Organization (WHO)8in 1946 as ‘health is not the mere absence of diseases but a state of well-being’.
Debates have occurred around, for instance, the relations between the concepts of ‘health’ and ‘well-being’ and whether it is primarily of an ‘objective’ or ‘subjective’ nature, lending itself to economic and/or psychological assessments.