GGR353H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Population Health, Iatrogenesis
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The definition of helath is relative to the context in which it arises. That is, how the concept will be defined will depend on who is doing the defining, why they are defining it, and the setting which they are operating. Modern societies devote a very large proportion of their economic resources to the production and distribution of health care. Much more to health than simply a collective of negatives a state of not suffering from any designated undesirable condition. The first and simplest stage defines health as an absence of disease or injury and takes as central the relation between health and health care. Level of response is determined by the access to care that a particular society provides for its members.
