Most stories about ‘health’ are actually about healthcare. Never a week goes past without headlines commenting on waiting times for treatment, access to expensive medications, staff shortages causing bed closures. It’s easy to conclude that the health of the nation is solely the business of the health service. However, in 1948 the World Health Organisation defined health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing, not merely the absence of illness or infirmity.”
No matter how good the Scottish NHS is – and it is pretty wonderful – it is clear from the WHO definition that treating illness […]
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