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Biomedical Disease Physical Biological Psychological Social Stress World Health Organization Well-Being

The definition of health has evolved over time from focusing on the body's ability to function normally to definitions that link health to well-being and not just the absence of disease. While WHO's 1948 definition linking health to physical, mental and social well-being was innovative, it was criticized as being too broad and not measurable.

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Biomedical Disease Physical Biological Psychological Social Stress World Health Organization Well-Being

The definition of health has evolved over time from focusing on the body's ability to function normally to definitions that link health to well-being and not just the absence of disease. While WHO's 1948 definition linking health to physical, mental and social well-being was innovative, it was criticized as being too broad and not measurable.

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The meaning of health has evolved over time.

In keeping with the biomedical perspective, early definitions of health


focused on the theme of the body's ability to function; health was seen as a state of normal function that could be
disrupted from time to time by disease. An example of such a definition of health is: "a state characterized by anatomic,
physiologic, and psychological integrity; ability to perform personally valued family, work, and community roles; ability
to deal with physical, biological, psychological, and social stress".[3] Then in 1948, in a radical departure from previous
definitions, the World Health Organization(WHO) proposed a definition that aimed higher: linking health to well-being,
in terms of "physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity".[4] 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.[5]

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