[Toward a renewed definition of health (author's transl)]. 1978

F J Menchaca

With several arguments and testimonies is founded the need for a renewed definition of health. It is offered to the discusion the following project; Health could be conceived as the model of a capacity of vital normatization which allows the person to enjoy his paycophysic harmony in dynamic equilibrium with his natural and social circumstances. The author thinks that at preent time, and humanistic definition like this, could not be easily understood and applied because of power structures and materialistic forces which act on the man of today. Notwithstanding this objetion, moral exigences and a personal feeling of sympathy toward the health matters, push the author to offer this project to the discusion.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D011788 Quality of Life A generic concept reflecting concern with the modification and enhancement of life attributes, e.g., physical, political, moral, social environment as well as health and disease. HRQOL,Health-Related Quality Of Life,Life Quality,Health Related Quality Of Life
D006262 Health The state of the organism when it functions optimally without evidence of disease. Individual Health,Normalcy,Normality,Health, Individual,Normalcies,Normalities
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man

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