What is health? The ability to adapt

Abstract

[...] human health cannot be separated from the health of our total planetary biodiversity. Science has contributed to our understanding of wellbeing through an ingenious apparatus of techniques that reveal not only the causal pathways of ill health but also evidence for their amelioration. [...] as the opening article in our Series on health in the occupied Palestinian territory shows, dimensions of suffering, especially at the community level, are measurable and often severe.