
|Articles|June 1, 2003
We still need that "village"
In the aftermath of World War II, a newly born World Health Organization defined health as "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."* More than 50 years later, despite a remarkable decline in disease-related morbidity and mortality, many children in the United States continue to suffer poor health under this definition.
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