An Ontological Definition of Health Itself

This document presents a conceptual and ontological definition of health. It distinguishes between health itself (as an ontological universal principle of coherent organization) and human health (as its phenomenological manifestation). Drawing on systems theory and philosophical reasoning, the article argues that the World Health Organization’s 1948 definition, while historically progressive, left the broader ontological meaning of health uncovered.Health itself, in its universal sense, is a dynamic coherent configuration of matter, information, and their relationships, capable, individually or collectively, of sustaining being, while human health shares the same ontological foundation but refers to the configuration capable of sustaining a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. © 2025 Alexandru Milea. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). The author retains full copyright and moral rights. This publication may be shared, cited, and adapted for academic purposes, provided that appropriate credit is given to the author.The assigned DOI will serve as a permanent record of authorship and intellectual priority.