What is Health
Below is a list of MHST601 resources with descriptions for What is Health. All resources are hyperlinked.
Websites
⇨ the World Health Organization ● WHO's main page
● World Health Organization. (1946). Constitution of the World Health Organization. https://apps.who.int/gb/bd/PDF/bd47/EN/constitution-en.pdf?ua=1
● World Health Organization. (1986). The Ottawa charter for health promotion. The 1st International Conference on Health Promotion. http://www.who.int/teams/health-promotion/enhanced-wellbeing/first-global-conference
⇨ the Data Commons ● an online organization that synthesis numerous types of data of different populations into single graphs. They take publicly available data from reputable sources. Access for datasets for different determinants of health by country can be accessed here
⇨ Statistics Canada ● a primary resource on research for life expectancy and determinants of health factors that affect Canadians regionally and demographically.
Scholarly Articles
Karimi, M., & Brazier, J. (2016). Health, health-related quality of life, and quality of life: What is the difference? PharmacoEconomics, 34(7), 645–649. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40273-016-0389-9
● article that discusses the differences between the terms health-related quality of life and quality of life
Strömberg, A. (2018). Definitions: Quality of life, health, and health-related quality of life. ESC CardioMed, 1754–1758. https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198784906.003.0404
● discusses how clinically focused variables do not subjectively measure the entirety of health experiences of the patient
Wilson, I. B., & Cleary, P. D. (1995). Linking clinical variables with health-related quality of life. A conceptual model of patient outcomes. Journal of the American Medical Association, 273(1), 59–65. [Google Scholar]
● publication of several clinical trials showing how these variable measure different health reponses
Marchildon, G., Allin, S., & Markur, S. (2020). Canada: Health System Review. World Health Organization, European Observatory of Health Systems and Policies. Retrieved June 5, 2022, from https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/336311/HiT-22-3-2020-eng.pdf.
● the World Health Organization in-depth systematic review on the Canada health system
Unit Resources
Huber, M. (2011). Health: How should we define it? British Medical Journal, 343,(7817), 235-237. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d4163 (link http://www.jstor.org/stable/23051314)
● article criticizing the WHO's 1946 definition of health
Brook. R. H. (2017). Should the definition of health include a measure of tolerance? JAMA, 317 (6), 585-586. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.14372 (link https://0-jamanetwork-com.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/journals/jama/fullarticle/2601506)
● article discussing the psychometric variable of intolerance in terms of assessment of health status