World Health Organization (WHO) Definition of Health
Résumé
World Health Organization defines health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Although this definition was welcomed by some as being innovative, it was also criticized as being vague, excessively broad and was not construed as measurable. For a long time, it was set aside as an impractical ideal and most discussions of health returned to the practicality of the biomedical model.
In 1984, WHO brought in a new conception of health, not as a state, but in dynamic terms of resiliency, in other words, as "a resource for living". This revised definition of health defined it as "the extent to which an individual or group is able to realize aspirations and satisfy needs and to change or cope with the environment. The contemporary philosophy of health has been quite focused on the problem of determining the nature of the concepts of health, illness, and disease from a scientific point of view.
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