health

Health has a variety of definitions, which have been used for different purposes over time. In general, it refers to physical and emotional well-being, especially that associated with normal functioning of the human body, absent of disease, pain (including mental pain), or injury.

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Health is an absence and a facet of quality of life. It is a medical state that serves as the opposite of disease. As a concept, it is classified as a need, a good, an academic discipline, and a field of study.

The subject is studied by medicine, health economics, and the sociology of health and illness. It is also examined within the context of public health. The topic is featured in the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition.

In digital archives, the term health is associated with 8,041,336 PubMed entries. It is referenced by 2,558 other encyclopedia articles. The topic is included in the Commons category "Health" and the Portal:Health and fitness. It is also listed on the Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have.

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Research

8,041,336 papers

Antibiotic Resistance: One Health One World Outlook.ReviewFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2021Aslam B, Khurshid M, Arshad MI et al.DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2021.771510
Importance of a One Health approach in advancing global health security and the Sustainable Development Goals.ReviewRevue scientifique et technique (International Office of Epizootics) · 2019Sinclair JRDOI: 10.20506/rst.38.1.2949
Artificially intelligent chatbots in digital mental health interventions: a review.ReviewExpert review of medical devices · 2021Boucher EM, Harake NR, Ward HE et al.DOI: 10.1080/17434440.2021.2013200
Defining and classifying public health systems: a critical interpretive synthesis.ReviewHealth research policy and systems · 2020Jarvis T, Scott F, El-Jardali F et al.DOI: 10.1186/s12961-020-00583-z
Social determinants and lifestyles: integrating environmental and public health perspectives.ReviewPublic health · 2016Graham H, White PCDOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2016.09.019
Keeping It Political and Powerful: Defining the Structural Determinants of Health.The Milbank quarterly · 2024Heller JC, Givens ML, Johnson SP et al.DOI: 10.1111/1468-0009.12695
A scoping review of social determinants of health's impact on substance use disorders over the life course.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2024Lin C, Cousins SJ, Zhu Y et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.josat.2024.209484
Global health education in high-income countries: confronting coloniality and power asymmetry.ReviewBMJ global health · 2022Sayegh H, Harden C, Khan H et al.DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2022-008501

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Wikidata facts

Subclass of: absence
Image: Star of life2.svg

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Commons category: Health
topic's main category: Category:Health
opposite of: disease
topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Health and fitness
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
facet of: quality of life
studied by: public health
described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
NCI Thesaurus ID: C25178
P8168: Broye

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Encyclopedic overview

17 sections

Contents

History
Determinants
Potential issues
Mental health
Maintaining
Diet
Exercise
Sleep
Role of science
Health care
Delivery
Role of public health
Self-care strategies
Occupational
See also
References
External links

Health can be promoted by encouraging healthful activities, such as regular physical exercise and adequate sleep, and by reducing or avoiding unhealthful activities or situations, such as smoking or excessive stress. Some factors affecting health are due to individual choices, such as whether to engage in a high-risk behavior, while others are due to structural causes, such as whether the society is arranged in a way that makes it easier or harder for people to get necessary healthcare services. Still, other factors are beyond both individual and group choices, such as genetic disorders.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “health” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.