Health
Health
is a State of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and is not
onlythe absence of disease or infirmity. This definition is that of the
preambule1 from 1946 to the Constitution of the WorldHealth (who) Organization.
This definition of the who has not changed since 1946. Itimplies that all the
basic needs of the person are met, they are emotional, health,nutritional,
social, or cultural and the stage of the embryo, or even of gametes to
theelderly. It is therefore rather as an objective, that some deem utopian
because it classifiesaccording to the studied countries, 70-99% of the people
as not being in good healthor ill [citation needed]. According to René Dubos,
the "physical and mental staterelatively free of genes and suffering which
allows the individual to operate as long aspossible in the middle where chance
or choice placed it ', which presents health as theconvergence of the concepts
of autonomy and well-being. Health is a term, sometimes presented as a
corollary of the absence of disease: carrierpeople from various diseases are
sometimes considered "healthy" if their disease iscontrolled by
treatment. The mid-20th century, diabetes specialists have thus
spoken"health insulinienne". Today, this state of affairs is even
majority in developedcountries: it becomes exceptional from a certain age do
not for example have adisorder of eye refraction or problems with hypertension.
Conversely some diseasesmay be long asymptomatic, which makes that people who
feel in good health maynot actually be. "State of health felt": this
is one of the indicators of health. It is published every twoyears since 2002,
for the OECD countries. After a trend upward from 2002 to 2008, itdropped
several points in 2010 "whatever the age group, the percentage of womenand
men who consider themselves good or very good health drop in 2010. And whenone
considers all of the sexes, it is same for the highest income quintile"2.
In 2008,74.9% of men felt in good or very good health, up from 70.6% in 2010. For women therate increased from 70.1% to 66.5 %2.