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Conceptual Evolution: Healthy China 2020


Health English is: Wellness, health status / status in English: Health. In some dictionaries, "health" is usually defined briefly as "the body is in normal function, no disease." This is the traditional concept of health


Usually we do see the disease as being disturbed by the body, causing a decline in function, impaired quality of life (mainly caused by physical pain) or premature death.
The concept of health in “Ci Hai” is: "The human body organs are well developed, functioning properly, physically strong, energetic and have good labor.
The state of performance. It is usually measured by anthropometry, physical examination and various physiological indicators. "This kind of formulation is better than "health is no disease", 
but it is still treated as a biological organism. Because it puts forward the concept of "labor efficiency," it still does not regard people as social people. Treating. The understanding of health is recognized as correct in the era of biomedical models.
In our dictionary, why do you have the above comments on health? The reason is nothing more than two aspects. First, the author of the dictionary, I do not know that the World Health Organization defined the definition of "health" in 1946. 


Second, his own understanding of health is like this. It should be said that "the harm is not shallow." However, the words are also said, the general public's understanding, health is "the body is in normal operation, no disease.  
"This concept was recognized and accepted by the masses at the time, including medical workers. Because, for a long time in the past, we are in an ignorant state of "the state of perfection of mental and social adaptability." It was not until the reform and opening up in recent years that attention was paid to the impact of psychological and social adaptability on health. 

A doctor who graduated from the Medical University in the 1960s told me that they did not study well when they were studying at the school. One is nutrition and the other is mental health. The reason why nutrition did not study well was that at that time, even the stomach was not enough, what nutrition was still talked about? As for mental health, it is something of idealism.
With regard to the concept of health and disease, the 1987 Chinese version of the Concise Britannica is defined as: "Health, the ability of individuals to adapt to the physical, emotional, spiritual and social aspects of the environment for a long time." 

The abnormal physiological or psychological state of the symptoms or signs is "the state in which the body's morphology and function deviate from the normal standard under the influence of the causative factors." "Health can use measurable values ​​(such as height, weight, and body temperature), pulse, blood pressure, vision, etc., but the standard is difficult to master." 


Although the concept refers to psychological factors in the definition, there is no specific content in measurement and disease classification. It can be said that this is the product of the transition from biomedical model to biological, psychological and social medical model. 

On the one hand, this transformation lacks sufficient clinical practice data to provide a theoretical summary; on the other hand, although the author accepts the idea of ​​a new medical model, it is difficult to make further theoretical discussions.
Therefore, it has not yet reached the health concept mentioned in its charter at the time of the establishment of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1946: “Health is a physical, psychological and social perfection, not just (Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not simply the absence of disease or infirmity.) WHO1948.

In fact, it is difficult to make a definitive definition of this. Because, even if there is no obvious disease, people's feelings about health or unhealthiness are also very subjective. There is no doubt that feeling healthy is not equal to the body without illness.
The World Health Organization’s definition of health extends the health of human beings from the biological meaning to the state of mind and social relations (the quality of social interaction), and the physical, physical, family and social life. Health status is included.

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