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How should we define health? A MUST READ BMJ Article

The current WHO definition of health, formulated in 1948, describes health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”  At that time this formulation was groundbreaking because of its breadth and ambition. It overcame the negative definition of health as absence of disease and included the physical, mental, and social domains. Although the definition has been criticised over the past 60 years, it has never been adapted. Criticism is now intensifying, and as populations age and the pattern of illnesses changes the definition may even be counterproductive. The paper summarises the limitations of the WHO definition and describes the proposals for making it more useful that were developed at a conference of international health experts held in the Netherlands. Full article

Filed under: eHealth, Emergency, global health, obesity, Policy, public health, Research, Urgent

eHealth Research Evidence in 2011

eHealth Research Evidence (PubMed database) in 2011

by @bacigalupe

Selected References

Link to full references. Kudos to Open Source!! Still too many references are not available to everyone.

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Filed under: eHealth, global health, Media, public health, Research

The Mainstreaming of PAR in Health Care by Bacigalupe

Filed under: eHealth, global health, public health, Research

Book Review: How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman

Book Review:

How Doctors Think

by Jerome Groopman

Filed under: global health, public health, Research

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