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No satisfactory definition of health exists so far. The new definition also describes how health functions as a complex adaptive system. The definition explains its components, how each part functions and how these fit together. This gives a new view on medicine and public health.

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This new definition of health will improve medicine and public health. It will ameliorate health of the people and at the same time lower costs. This is what everybody wants.

MD Johannes - Bircher
University of Bern

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This page is a summary of: Understanding the nature of health: New perspectives for medicine and public health. Improved wellbeing at lower costs, F1000Research, February 2016, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.,
DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.7849.1.
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