Geography 3312A/B Lecture Notes - Cholera, World Trade Organization, Medicalization
1 Dec 2012
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A broad definition of health (who): a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not just the absence of disease". Most low-income countries focus on strategies that seek to control or eradicate disease: that is, a focus on physical well-being because most deaths in poorer countries are preventable. One key measure of physical well-being: living a long and healthy and life, as measured by life expectancy (which is part of the hdi) Int"l development statistics: not the number of years that are lived: in 2000 the who introduced a way of calculating life expectancy called disability adjusted life expectancy. Dale measures the number of healthy years lived at full health by: calculating years of ill-health, weighting them by the severity of ill-health, subtracting this from overall life expectancy. But note: measures of physical well-being will differ between societies in part because their definition of physical well-being differs.
