Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Faculty of Social Sciences |
2015
Abstract
This chapter should introduce different concepts of health and disease. It briefly deals also with value, attributed to health and health determinants.
It is an introduction to basic terms and concepts. Different concepts of health and disease lead to different manners of how we measure health status and how we formulate health policy.
In this chapter you can find also basic information about health status indicators (like incidence, prevalence and the like) and epidemiological methods. Epidemiological data are one of the key prerequisites to informed policy making.
Therefore, students should become critical while