If health is defined as the absence of disease, the medical profession is the one that can declare an individual healthy. With the progress of medicine, ...

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Hence, this article deals with the concepts of health in relation to the present digital environment. How knowledge relevant to health and well-being is ...

Aims of the Paper. The principal aims of this paper are (1) to increase professional health workers' knowledge of selected research findings and theory so ...

Aug 24, 2018 · For many years the definition of 'health' has remained unchanged as a narrow concept, encompassing physical wellbeing from a medical context ...

This article describes key research themes in the study of social relationships and health, and it highlights policy implications suggested by this research.

Population health is a relatively new term that has not yet been precisely defined. Is it a concept of health or a field of study of health determinants?

This article broadly reviews some of the knowledge accumulated to date that highlights the importance of social—and particularly socioeconomic—factors in ...