ArticleActa bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis2018
Historical evolution of the concept of health in Western medicine.
Article in Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
22 citing papers in PubMed.
- Promoting Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Wellness through Remote Monitoring and Health Coaching: A Clinical Trial.Annals of the American Thoracic Society · 2022Trial
- Eating disorders and related behaviors among medical students in Rabat, Morocco.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- Health & nature: a critical review of historical perspectives to support narratives for change.International journal for equity in health · 2025Review
- Quantifying Individual Health Status from Multi-omics Data by Health State Manifold.Phenomics (Cham, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Effect of Executive Function on Depressive Symptoms in College Students: The Chain Mediating Role of Procrastination Behaviour and Sleep Quality.Actas espanolas de psiquiatria · 2025Article
- Measuring Whole Person Health: A Scoping Review.Journal of integrative and complementary medicine · 2025Article
- Advancements in Electronic Medical Records for Clinical Trials: Enhancing Data Management and Research Efficiency.Cancers · 2025Review
- Clinical and epidemiological profile of patients with mental disorders in a specialized outpatient clinic and its role in the psychosocial care network.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Article
- Ecosystem health and malfunctions: an organisational perspective.Biology & philosophy · 2023Article
- Medical Records: A Historical Narrative.Biomedicines · 2022Review
- Considerations in designing trauma-focused interventions for displaced Afghan women.Frontiers in global women's health · 2022Review
- Vaccination through time: from the first smallpox vaccine to current vaccination campaigns against the COVID-19 pandemic.Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis · 2021Article
- Differences between Active and Semi-Active Students Regarding the Parameters of Body Composition Using Bioimpedance and Magnetic Bioresonance Technologies.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Review
- Convalescent blood plasma (CBP) donated by recovered COVID-19 patients - A comment.Transfusion and apheresis science : official journal of the World Apheresis Association : official journal of the European Society for Haemapheresis · 2021Article
- Protective face masks through centuries, from XVII century plague doctors to current health care professionals managing the COVID-19 pandemic.Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis · 2020Article
- "Nobel Prizes in Medicine as an overview on XX and XXI centuries biomedicine and health sciences: historical and epistemological considerations".Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis · 2020Article
- Historical and methodological highlights of quarantine measures: from ancient plague epidemics to current coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis · 2020Article
- Development of a Care Bundle for Stroke Survivors with Psychological Symptoms: Evidence Summary and Delphi Study.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2020Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
1 author.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
"Health" is a positive multi-dimensional concept involving a variety of features, ranging from ability to integrity, from fitness to well-being. According to the first principle of the constitution of the World Health Organization "Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity". This constitution was adopted by the International Health Conference held in New York in June-July 1946 and became operative in April 1948. This classical, seventy-year old definition of the World Health Organization is nowadays considered a historical one and it stands as a fundamental milestone of a diachronic track beginning, in Western medicine, with the definition of health proposed by Hippocrates and his School. For Hippocrates health was the state of equilibrium of four humours. This philosophical-naturalistic definition has been flanked in the history of Western medicine by various concepts of health and disease, alternatively based, according to different scientists and in different medical contexts and periods, on epidemiological, anatomical, physiological, functional, social and molecular perspectives. Since biomedical definitions are always prone to integration and updating, depending on the continuous achievements of medical science and bioethics, the fascinating journey through the concepts of health and disease, the fundamental milestones of which are here briefly proposed, is still in progress.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.