Jul 26, 2011 · The WHO definition of health as complete wellbeing is no longer fit for purpose given the rise of chronic disease. Machteld Huber and colleagues propose changing the emphasis towards the ability to adapt and self manage in the face of social, physical, and emotional challenges The current WHO definition of health, formulated in 1948, describes health as “a …

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Jun 09, 2021 · What are obesity and overweight. Overweight and obesity are defined as abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that may impair health. Body mass index (BMI) is a simple index of weight-for-height that is commonly used to classify overweight and obesity in adults.

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Slum upgrading is an integrated approach that aims to turn around downward trends in an area. These downward trends can be legal (land tenure), physical (infrastructure), social (crime or education, for example) or economic. Slum upgrading …

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Gay-Lussac's law usually refers to Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac's law of combining volumes of gases, discovered in 1808 and published in 1809. It sometimes refers to the proportionality of the volume of a gas to its absolute temperature at constant pressure. This law was published by Gay-Lussac in 1802, and in the article in which he described his work he cited earlier unpublished …

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Even if we could define a single metric to use — such as a minimum population threshold in a settlement — countries adopt very different thresholds. ... UN-HABITAT defines a slum household as a group of individuals living under the same roof in an urban area who lack one or more of the following 22: 1. Durable housing of a permanent nature ...

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