Seven Vital Conditions for Well-Being Framework

This is a useful framework for conceptualizing holistic well-being and the Conditions that give rise to it, as well as identifying levers for community change and improvement. It brings together major determinants of health, exposing how parts of a multi-faceted whole work as a system to produce population well-being.

Vital conditions persist over generations. Seven major categories of vital conditions strongly shape the way each of us experience the world and what we encounter throughout our lives. This framework brings together major determinants of health, exposing how multi-faceted parts of a whole work as a system to produce population well-being.

This framework is built from seven domains and roughly 75 data indicators.