A Review of Approaches to Conceptualize Health and its Determinants: From Biomedical Approach to One Health Initiative

The human approach to health and identification of the factors affecting it over time has changed. Understanding these approaches is helpful in promoting policymaking and good governance can be helpful in the health sector. Biomedical, psychological, health promotion, health determinants, health in...

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Published inIranian journal of epidemiology Vol. 13; no. Vol.13, (Special Issue); pp. 145 - 154
Main Authors V Yazdi Feyzabadi, MH Mehrolhassani, M Emami, S Khosravi
Format Journal Article
LanguagePersian
Published Tehran University of Medical Sciences 01.03.2018
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biomedical
health
one health
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Summary:The human approach to health and identification of the factors affecting it over time has changed. Understanding these approaches is helpful in promoting policymaking and good governance can be helpful in the health sector. Biomedical, psychological, health promotion, health determinants, health in all policies and one health are the most important health approaches that have emerged in different years in order. Each of these approaches has many challenges and strengths. Documents and studies show that although these health approaches have been inconsistently addressed in Iran, no specific doctrine has been define to guide the health policies. Therefore, in practice, what seems to be that a biomedical approach to health is the dominant approach in Iranchr('39')s health system.
ISSN:1735-7489
1735-7489