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What is the Definition of Human Health? That is the Question.

NOMINATED TOPIC | August 21, 2009
Briefly describe a specific question, or set of related questions, about a health care test or treatment that this program should consider.

What is the Definition of Human Health? That is the Question.

Does your question include a comparison of different health care approaches? (If no, your topic will still be considered.)

yes

If yes, explain the specific technologies, devices, drugs, or interventions you would like to see compared:

Academic, Systemic and Endemic Definitions of Human Health are Primitives in the development of a Health Delivery System.

Methodologies, Techniques and Tools immediately derive from a non-linear predictive analysis of our definitions of Health Delivery Systems.

The Health Delivery System must be based on the Constitution of a given Entity and be a Civil Birthright.

What patients or group(s) of patients does your question apply to? (Please include specific details such as age range, gender, coexisting diagnoses, and indications for therapy.)

homo sapiensi, Earthlings, including fellow Americans....

Are there subgroups of patients that your question might apply to? (For example, an ethnic group, stage or severity of a disease.)

Other Earthlings. Nee Earthlings.

Describe the health-related benefits you are interested in. (For example, improvements in patient symptoms or problems from treatment or diagnosis.)

Accessibility to a Health Delivery System, regardless of the economic, social or financial status.

Describe any health-related risks, side effects, or harms that you are concerned about.

Life is for the Living. Life is an Invitation to Live! R.S.V.P.

Appropriateness for EHC Program

Does your question include a health care drug, intervention, device, or technology available (or likely to be available) in the U.S.?

yes

Which priority area(s) and population(s) does this topic apply to? (check all that apply)
EHC Priority Conditions (updated in 2008)
  • Arthritis and nontraumatic joint disorders
  • Cancer
  • Cardiovascular disease, including stroke and hypertension
  • Dementia, including Alzheimer's disease
  • Depression and other mental health disorders
  • Developmental delays, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and autism
  • Diabetes mellitus
  • Functional limitations and disability
  • Infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS
  • Obesity
  • Peptic ulcer disease and dyspepsia
  • Pregnancy, including preterm birth
  • Pulmonary disease/asthma
AHRQ Priority Populations
  • Low income groups
  • Minority groups
  • Women
  • Children
  • Elderly
  • Individuals with special health care needs, including individuals with disabilities or who need chronic care or end-of-life health care
Federal Health Care Program
  • Medicaid
  • Medicare
  • State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)
  • Other

Importance

Describe why this topic is important.
What specifically motivated you to ask this question? (For example, you are developing a clinical guideline, working with a policy with large uncertainty about the appropriate approach, costly intervention, new research you have read, items in the media you may have seen, a clinical practice dilemma you know of, etc.)

We can neither recognize nor deliver Human Health without first defining Human Health.

Does your question represent uncertainty for clinicians and/or policy-makers? (For example, variations in clinical care, controversy in what constitutes appropriate clinical care, or a policy decision.)

yes

If yes, please explain:

We must first define Human Health.

Potential Impact

How will an answer to your research question be used or help inform decisions for you or your group?

To complete implementation of Anthropomorphic Systems already a work in progress, since 1970.

Describe the timeframe in which an answer to your question is needed.

Before my Death, circa 2043 A.D.

Describe any health disparities, inequities, or impact on vulnerable populations your question applies to.

homo sapiensi.

Nominator Information

Other Information About You: (optional)
Please choose a description that best describes your role or perspective: (you may select more than one category if appropriate)

To complete implementation of Anthropomorphic Systems already a work in progress, since 1970.

Are you making a suggestion as an individual or on behalf of an organization?

Organization

Please tell us how you heard about the Effective Health Care Program
Page last reviewed November 2017
Page originally created August 2009

Internet Citation: What is the Definition of Human Health? That is the Question.. Content last reviewed November 2017. Effective Health Care Program, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.
https://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/get-involved/nominated-topics/what-is-the-definition-of-human-health-that-is-the-question

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