ArticleMedical hypotheses2014
A living systems perspective on health.
Article in Medical hypotheses, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Health Measurement Model-Bringing a Life Course Perspective to Health Measurement: The PRISM Model.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2021Article
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- "Well-Being in All Policies": Promoting Cross-Sectoral Collaboration to Improve People's Lives.Preventing chronic disease · 2016Article
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Abstract
Absence of a theoretical basis for defining health has made it an elusive concept and problematic to measure. This deficiency has precluded a clear delineation of the content of health science as a field. In this manuscript I use a living systems theoretical perspective to distinguish the parts and emergent properties of health. I term the parts of health, "assets," which include the dimensions of energetics, restoration, mind, reproduction, and capabilities. Health assets interact at the level of the whole person to form integrated and emergent capacities that enable adaptation to environmental challenges, satisfaction of needs, attainment of life goals, and survival. Healthy individuals live long and adapt to and thrive within their environments. As more is learned about the interrelationships among health assets, their influences, their consequences, and how they interact to produce integrated functional capacities, a theoretically grounded and empirically informed ontology of health will emerge.
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