Higginbotham Definition Of Health
Program coordinator: Dr Nick Higginbotham
1.1. The definition of health.
Health is a broad term covering many facets of our life, including physical, psychological, mental, and social aspects. Arguably, health can be defined as a philosophical term describing physical, psychological, mental, and social integrity of one's status. Those four main aspects are integral parts of the concept of health; in other words, the absence of one of those will affect one's entire health.
1.2. The differences of perspective
Although health is being defined in many ways, many ordinary people define health as the absence of illness, while others define it as the sense of wellness (Talbot & Verrinder, 2010). The former definition of health …show more content…
In addition, all the health documents and meetings like Ottawa charter (1986), were focused on the local health and empowering local health communities. In the early of 1990, the developed countries have warned about the causes of death by communicable diseases. Thus, the World Bank funded a study named "Global Burden Disease" to build a global health information bank about the burden diseases to give a clear and broad understanding of over 100 causes of death, risk factors and injuries for eight major bank regions “developed-countries”. The Global Burden of disease is a metric study of collecting, combining, validating, analysing and publishing health information together to assess diseases, injuries and risks factors which lead to disabilities, loss of health and premature death and give effective recommendations and set agendas to minimise the causes of disease. GBD was the first study focused on global health issues as one unit in that time, and it estimated the death due to each cause. Also, it has provided a greater attention to the international public health community to the importance for both non-communicable diseases and mental health. in addition, it has a Widespread recognition that the disability is a major source of disease and injury worldwide, and it has offered a Better assessment of major risk factors for human health through the metric comparative analysis of diseases and injuries offered by the
1.1. The definition of health.
Health is a broad term covering many facets of our life, including physical, psychological, mental, and social aspects. Arguably, health can be defined as a philosophical term describing physical, psychological, mental, and social integrity of one's status. Those four main aspects are integral parts of the concept of health; in other words, the absence of one of those will affect one's entire health.
1.2. The differences of perspective
Although health is being defined in many ways, many ordinary people define health as the absence of illness, while others define it as the sense of wellness (Talbot & Verrinder, 2010). The former definition of health …show more content…
In addition, all the health documents and meetings like Ottawa charter (1986), were focused on the local health and empowering local health communities. In the early of 1990, the developed countries have warned about the causes of death by communicable diseases. Thus, the World Bank funded a study named "Global Burden Disease" to build a global health information bank about the burden diseases to give a clear and broad understanding of over 100 causes of death, risk factors and injuries for eight major bank regions “developed-countries”. The Global Burden of disease is a metric study of collecting, combining, validating, analysing and publishing health information together to assess diseases, injuries and risks factors which lead to disabilities, loss of health and premature death and give effective recommendations and set agendas to minimise the causes of disease. GBD was the first study focused on global health issues as one unit in that time, and it estimated the death due to each cause. Also, it has provided a greater attention to the international public health community to the importance for both non-communicable diseases and mental health. in addition, it has a Widespread recognition that the disability is a major source of disease and injury worldwide, and it has offered a Better assessment of major risk factors for human health through the metric comparative analysis of diseases and injuries offered by the