Comments on: How the WHO’s Definition of Health Contributed to a Medicalized, Drug-Centric System https://anh-usa.org/how-the-whos-definition-of-health-contributed-to-a-medicalized-drug-centric-system/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-the-whos-definition-of-health-contributed-to-a-medicalized-drug-centric-system ANH Protects Free Speech About Natural Health Modalities, Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy, Homeopathy and Access To Natural Therapies. Mon, 16 Dec 2024 14:38:05 +0000 hourly 1 By: Gertrude https://anh-usa.org/how-the-whos-definition-of-health-contributed-to-a-medicalized-drug-centric-system/#comment-84458 Mon, 16 Dec 2024 14:38:05 +0000 https://anh-usa.org/?p=84545#comment-84458 If all is interconnected than how can anyone feel well with these perpetual wars, genocides, bombings of innocent children/people. Daily lowering our frequencies on top of Chemtrailing/Geoengineering, 5 G/6 G, Processed foods and a diminishing cohesion in all societies.

]]> By: Joe Weinstein https://anh-usa.org/how-the-whos-definition-of-health-contributed-to-a-medicalized-drug-centric-system/#comment-83896 Thu, 12 Dec 2024 23:48:46 +0000 https://anh-usa.org/?p=84545#comment-83896 Thanks for this discussion, and especially for quoting both definitions of ‘health’:
WHO: ‘A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.’
Verkerk: ‘The experience of physical, physiological, and psychological well-being and resilience. It includes the ability to adapt and self-manage in the face of physical, social, emotional, and environmental challenges.’

These definitions are both good, albeit Verkerk’s is a bit better. They certainly do not conflict. They both focus on ‘well-being’ but Verkerk’s usefully adds also a specific focus on resilience as a component of ‘well-being’. Both definitions allow for ‘well-being’ to be a dynamic process over time, not just an attribute of a single instant.

It’s misleading to blame the WHO definition for an unhealthy focus on pharmaceuticals. The Verkerk definition could just as easily be twisted into being used to excuse that focus. Pharma shills can always hype their products as aids to ‘resilience’ just as readily as they now hype them as aids to ‘complete well being’.

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