In everyday life, we consider that we are healthy if we do not currently suffer from any acute or chronic illness. Is it simple as that? Are we healthy if we are depressed? Or if we do not have elementary conditions for hygiene, such as access to clear water and ...

Many factors influence human health as well disease onset, progression and outcome. Whether people will be healthy or not, is determined by various circumstances, personal characteristisc and different environmental factors (social, economic and physical). There are many definitions and classifications of health-related factors in the literature, which are called “determinants ...

Public health is an important area of ​​medicine that provides health benefits to citizens, acting multidisciplinary at the population level. The World Health Organization (WHO) definition of public health has been widely accepted for thirty years. According to it, public health is “the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging ...