State of good physical, psychological and social well-being, not just a lack of sickness or of being handicapped.

Statisticians use various indicators to evaluate the health of a given population. Positive measures (e.g., average longevity) are used in analysis' however, negative measures (e.g., death rate or sickness index) are used more and more commonly.

• Constitution of the World Health Organization
  Place of publication: (Dz. Urz. UE z 1948 r. Nr 61, poz. 477, z późn. zm.)

• Morbidity
• Disabled person
• Incidence (new cases)