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Understanding the nature of health: New perspectives for medicine and public health. Improved wellbeing at lower costs

2016-02-12

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<h4>Background: </h4> Current dilemmas of health care systems call for a new look at the nature of health. This is offered by the Meikirch model. We explore its hypothetical benefit for the future of medicine and public health. Meikirch model: It states: “Health is a dynamic state of wellbeing emergent from conducive interactions between individuals’ potentials, life’s demands, and social and environmental determ...

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Literature Corpus work: 72af6cea-3a6c-5d22-83b6-b2d3ca6fdf55
DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.7849.1

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