TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Chapter 7. Outcome Measurements in Pain Medicine
A1  - Wittink, Harriët
A1  - Goudas, Leonidas C.
A1  - Strassels, Scott
A1  - Carr, Daniel B.
A2  - Warfield, Carol A.
A2  - Bajwa, Zahid H.
PY  - 2004
T2  - Principles & Practice of Pain Medicine, 2e
AB  - Central  to  the  evaluation  of  health  care  is  the  measurement  of  health.  Until  the  first  part  of  the  twentieth  century,  health  was  defined  as  the  absence  of  disease  and  was  measured  in  terms  of  morbidity  and  mortality.  This  simple  approach  to  health  status  was  rejected  in  1948  with  the  expansion  of  the  concept  of  health  by  the  World  Health  Organization  (WHO),  which  defined  health  as,  “A  state  of  complete  physical,  mental  and  social  well  being  and  not  merely  the  absence  of  disease  or  infirmity.”1  This  definition  reflected  the  multidimensionality  of  health  and  considered  not  only  biologic  markers,  but  also  the  ability  to  perform  physically,  psychologically,  and  socially  in  the  everyday  environment.  
SN  - 
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CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/20
UR  - accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=3414745
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