THE HISTORY OF THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE CONCEPT OF HEALTH

Abstract

The article gives an idea of health and diseases in various historical epochs. Depending on the historical period, there is a different amount of information about medicine, including diseases and the concept of «Health». This is due to the amount of archaeological and documentary evidence. For a long time, ideas about health have been closely linked with religion. Hippocrates and other scientists of the ancient world at the heart of health determined the state of equilibrium of the four main fluids. With the development of anatomy, physiology and medicine, the development of diseases was considered as damage to anatomical structures and disruption of their functions. In the XIV-XV centuries, a direction appeared that considers the influence of social and social factors on human health. In the XIX century, the ideas of health and disease are further developed based on physiological and anatomical studies. The German Anatomical School compared the concepts of human health and pathology, linked the development of diseases with changes in cells. During the 20th century, on the one hand, medicine became more and more molecular and submicroscopic; on the other hand, global attention to people, both healthy and sick, resumed, which gave rise to synergetic, multifaceted definitions of health. The World Health Organization in 1946 formulated the definition of health as «a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not just the absence of diseases or physical defects.» In the future, this concept was repeatedly criticized, as it considered health as an ideal and brought it closer to the concept of happiness. Today it is obvious that the concept of health is a multifactorial concept and, in addition to the medical component, is closely related to other areas of human life: sociology, ecology, cultural studies, economics, etc.