The NBWHP does not use the term "infirmity" which is used in the WHO definition to classify elderly and disabled individuals as definitionally un-healthy. Also, the NBWHP's definition adds spiritual and emotional wellness to the definition of health which centers the roles of spirituality and the need to tend to emotional wellbeing for Black women. NBWHP's definition also emphasizes action by using the term "the active promotion of" wellness and adds a time aspect by using the phrase "this and future generations."