Question

1-How does the World Health Organization define “health,” and what challenges does the definition present?

2- What are the benefits and harms of population screening?

Answer 1

1-How does the World Health Organization define “health,” and what challenges does the definition present?

The world health organisation defines health as the state in which there is complete mental, physical as well as social well being of a person and is not only defined by the state in which there is no disease or absence of infirmity.

Challenges in the definition of health provided by WHO are:

• Lack of operational value
• Uncertainty in development of cohesive strategies of health
• The word complete has been used because of which the achievable goals of the definition does not become possible.