A variety of definitions have been used for different purposes over time. Health can be promoted by encouraging healthful activities, such as regular physical exercise and adequate sleep, and by reducing or avoiding unhealthful activities or situations, such as smoking or excessive stress. Still, other factors are beyond both individual and group choices, such as genetic disorders. Ongoing sleep deprivation has been linked to an increased risk for some chronic health problems.
- In such societies, healthcare is available to those that can afford to pay for it or have self-insured it or who may be covered by care financed by the government or tribe directly.
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- Global health crisis unlike any other — COVID-19 is spreading human suffering, destabilizing the global economy and upending the lives of billions