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’.
Main Author: | Erdman, Susan E |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Division of Comparative Medicine |
Format: | Article |
Language: | en_US |
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Impact Journals
2017
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107238 |
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