Defining ‘good health’
We all want to live a long life with ‘good health’. But what does that really mean? Clinicians often define ‘good health’ as the absence of disease. Indeed, modern biomedical research focuses on finding remedies for specific ailments, that, when absent, will yield ‘good health’.
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1072382022-09-29T21:28:54Z Defining ‘good health’ Erdman, Susan E Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Division of Comparative Medicine Erdman, Susan E We all want to live a long life with ‘good health’. But what does that really mean? Clinicians often define ‘good health’ as the absence of disease. Indeed, modern biomedical research focuses on finding remedies for specific ailments, that, when absent, will yield ‘good health’. 2017-03-08T20:04:30Z 2017-03-08T20:04:30Z 2016-12 2016-12 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1945-4589 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107238 Erdman, Susan E. “Defining ‘good Health.’” Aging 8, no. 12 (December 29, 2016): 3157–3158. en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.18632/aging.101154 Aging Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf Impact Journals Impact Journals |
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