The Ottawa Charter and ancient Greek Medicine: Brief Thoughts on two Historic Moments and the Change in Paradigms of Health Definition
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https://doi.org/10.37467/gka-revmedica.v4.846Keywords:
History of Medicine, Anthropology, Medical, Body Image, Human BodyAbstract
From the Ottawa Charter of 1986, health promotion has been seen not only as an exclusive responsibility of the Healthcare sector, and it goes beyond a healthy lifestyle towards a global state of well-being. The idea of a dynamic balance between health and disease has a historical beginning in the West around V b.C., when Philosophy of Nature and Medicine began to become integrated. According to pre-Socratic investigations, the physical human nature was linked to the concept of physis. Diseases also followed the same principles that gave the kósmos its sense of totality. The integration between man and kósmos initially happened through its constituent elements in order to the same concepts about spiritual nature could be further on projected. This theory will be present in Corpus hippocraticum, on the matter of health as equilibrium.
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