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Defining health by addressing individual, social, and environmental determinants: New opportunities for health care and public health
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) mobilized global commitments to promote health, socioeconomic, and sustainable development. Trends indicate that the health MDGs may not be achieved by 2015, in part because of insufficient coordination across related health, socioeconomic, and environmental i...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4119253/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24943659 http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/jphp.2014.19 |
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description | The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) mobilized global commitments to promote health, socioeconomic, and sustainable development. Trends indicate that the health MDGs may not be achieved by 2015, in part because of insufficient coordination across related health, socioeconomic, and environmental initiatives. Explicitly acknowledging the need for such collaboration, the Meikirch Model of Health posits that: Health is a state of wellbeing emergent from conducive interactions between individuals' potentials, life's demands, and social and environmental determinants. Health results throughout the life course when individuals' potentials – and social and environmental determinants – suffice to respond satisfactorily to the demands of life. Life's demands can be physiological, psychosocial, or environmental, and vary across contexts, but in every case unsatisfactory responses lead to disease. This conceptualization of the integrative nature of health could contribute to ongoing efforts to strengthen cooperation across actors and sectors to improve individual and population health – leading up to 2015 and beyond. |
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spelling | pubmed-41192532014-09-03 Defining health by addressing individual, social, and environmental determinants: New opportunities for health care and public health Bircher, Johannes Kuruvilla, Shyama J Public Health Policy Original Article The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) mobilized global commitments to promote health, socioeconomic, and sustainable development. Trends indicate that the health MDGs may not be achieved by 2015, in part because of insufficient coordination across related health, socioeconomic, and environmental initiatives. Explicitly acknowledging the need for such collaboration, the Meikirch Model of Health posits that: Health is a state of wellbeing emergent from conducive interactions between individuals' potentials, life's demands, and social and environmental determinants. Health results throughout the life course when individuals' potentials – and social and environmental determinants – suffice to respond satisfactorily to the demands of life. Life's demands can be physiological, psychosocial, or environmental, and vary across contexts, but in every case unsatisfactory responses lead to disease. This conceptualization of the integrative nature of health could contribute to ongoing efforts to strengthen cooperation across actors and sectors to improve individual and population health – leading up to 2015 and beyond. Palgrave Macmillan 2014-08 2014-06-19 /pmc/articles/PMC4119253/ /pubmed/24943659 http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/jphp.2014.19 Text en Copyright © 2014 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Ltd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ |
spellingShingle | Original Article Bircher, Johannes Kuruvilla, Shyama Defining health by addressing individual, social, and environmental determinants: New opportunities for health care and public health |
title | Defining health by addressing individual, social, and environmental determinants: New opportunities for health care and public health |
title_full | Defining health by addressing individual, social, and environmental determinants: New opportunities for health care and public health |
title_fullStr | Defining health by addressing individual, social, and environmental determinants: New opportunities for health care and public health |
title_full_unstemmed | Defining health by addressing individual, social, and environmental determinants: New opportunities for health care and public health |
title_short | Defining health by addressing individual, social, and environmental determinants: New opportunities for health care and public health |
title_sort | defining health by addressing individual, social, and environmental determinants: new opportunities for health care and public health |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4119253/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24943659 http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/jphp.2014.19 |
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