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ArticleJournal of public health policy2014

Defining health by addressing individual, social, and environmental determinants: new opportunities for health care and public health.

Johannes Bircher, Shyama Kuruvilla

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Article in Journal of public health policy, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 79 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

79 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Monitoring and evaluation instruments of individual health in community settings: a scoping review.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2026
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  5. From Beliefs to Action: Dietitians' Perspectives on Environmental Sustainability and a Pathway to Planetary Health Framework for Food System Change.Journal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Johannes BircherDepartment of Hepatology, University of Bern, Reuelweg 20, BE, Meikirch, CH-3045, Switzerland.
Shyama KuruvillaThe Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health, hosted by the World Health Organization, 20 Avenue Appia, Geneva, 1202, Switzerland.

Funding

World Health Organization 001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) mobilized global commitments to promote health, socioeconomic, and sustainable development. Trends indicate that the health MDGs may not be achieved by 2015, in part because of insufficient coordination across related health, socioeconomic, and environmental initiatives. Explicitly acknowledging the need for such collaboration, the Meikirch Model of Health posits that: Health is a state of wellbeing emergent from conducive interactions between individuals' potentials, life's demands, and social and environmental determinants. Health results throughout the life course when individuals' potentials--and social and environmental determinants--suffice to respond satisfactorily to the demands of life. Life's demands can be physiological, psychosocial, or environmental, and vary across contexts, but in every case unsatisfactory responses lead to disease. This conceptualization of the integrative nature of health could contribute to ongoing efforts to strengthen cooperation across actors and sectors to improve individual and population health--leading up to 2015 and beyond.

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Delivery of Health CareGlobal HealthPublic HealthSocial Determinants of HealthHealth PolicyHumansModels, TheoreticalWorld Health Organization

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PMID24943659
PMCPMC4119253

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