Definitions of Health

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Bircher, J., & Kuruvilla, S.(2014). Defining health by addressing individual, social, and environmental determinants:New opportunities for health care and public health. Journal of PUblic Health Policy, 25(3), 363-386. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43288035 

Brook, R, H. (2018) Should the definition of health include a measure of tolerance? JAMA, 317(6), 585-586. https://doi.1001/jama.2016.14372 

Callahan, D. (1973). The WHO definition of ‘Health’. The Hastings Centre Studies 1(3), 77-87. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3527467 

Card, A.(2017). Moving beyond the WHO definition of health: A new perspective for an aging world and the emerging era of value based care. World Medical and Health Policy, 127-137.

Saracci, R. (1977). The world health organisation needs to reconsider its definition of health. British Medical Journal 314(7091), 1409-1410. https://wwwljstor.org/stable/25174539 

Schramme, T. (2023). Health as complete well-being: The WHO definition and beyond. Public Health Ethic, 16(3) 210-218. https://doi.org/10.1093/phe/phad017  

World Health Organization (1948). Definition of Health https://www.who.int/about/governance/constitution