HLSC 2P21 Lecture 1: HLSC 2P21 - Lecture 1
4 Feb 2016
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Health doesn"t have a set definition, but there are many ways of looking at it. Who: state of complete physical, mental and social well-being; not merely absence of disease and infirmity. Raeburn definition: health has to do with the bodily, mental and social quality of life of people as determined in particularly psychological, societal, cultural and policy dimensions using private/public resources to improve well-being as one defines it . Perception can vary too due to pharmaceuticals promoting better health. Can also be obliviousness of health sell their product: this drug you need even though you might not actually believe it before in order to. For instance, someone can see this as an absence of disease (negative definition) while others look at it as the ability to do certain things (positive definition). So therefore well-being isn"t considered in terms of absence of disease.
