In America, wellness has become an important concept in preventive health care and thus in the health system as a whole; in Germany, on the other hand, it should take another twenty years, until the term "wellness" became popular. At this point in time, the first concepts were already in place in the health system, that brought with them similar ideas (such as the increasing acceptance of psychosomatic illnesses and phenomena such as burn-out syndrome), but these holistic approaches were by no means called wellness.
When the term first spread in Germany, It was increasingly finding its way into leisure culture - wellness is always seen here closely linked to tourism, Leisure and cosmetics. Hence the role of the idea as a medical factor is far less important than in America; there is a broad market for wellness offers in Germany for this, intended to encourage customers to do so, to do something "for yourself" - since it is now through relaxation, by paying attention to your own body or by pleasant and not too strenuous leisure activities.
Therefore, the wellness movement is much more important to us than the fashion movement than it is in America, so the idea of Dunn's high level wellness is more in universities, Has spread in hospitals and factories.
The other idea, which this designation evokes in Germany can be easily illustrated, if you want to imagine “corporate wellness” - a very unthinkable term in Germany, while in America it is seen as an effective prevention for disease.
However, the American and German understandings of wellness also have similarities: because preventive health care through physical and mental well-being is definitely something, which one can also imagine as a supporter of the German wellness movement. Especially in the recent past, the concept of medical wellness has also spread increasingly in Germany, a holistic approach to disease prevention and therapy, who was able to achieve amazing success in some areas.