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What is Human Health

        A relative state in which one is able to function well physically, mentally, socially, and spiritually in order to express the full range of one's unique potentialities within the environment in which one is living. In the words of René Dubos, “health is primarily a measure of each person's ability to do and become what he wants to become.”

        Current views of health and illness recognize health as more than the absence of disease. Realizing that humans are dynamic beings whose state of health can change from day to day or even from hour to hour. It is better to think of each person as being located on a graduated scale or continuous spectrum ranging from obvious dire illness through the absence of discernible disease to a state of optimal functioning in every aspect of one's life. High-level wellness is described as a dynamic process in which the individual is actively engaged n moving toward the fulfillment of his or her potential.

Main Problems of Current Status

• Physical Activity and Nutrition
• Overweight and Obesity
• Tobacco
• Substance Abuse
• HIV/AIDS
• Mental Health
• Environmental Quality

Preserving health

The best way to maintain health is to preserve it through a healthful lifestyle, rather than waiting until we are sick to put things right.

This state of enhanced well-being is referred to as wellness.

The McKinley Health Center at the University of Illinois IL defines wellness as:

"A state of optimal well-being that is oriented toward maximizing an individual's potential. This is a life-long process of moving towards enhancing your physical, intellectual, emotional, social, spiritual, and environmental well-being."

Wellness promotes an active awareness of and participation in health, as an individual and in the community. Maintaining wellness and optimal health is a lifelong, daily commitment. Steps that can help us maximize our health include:

• a balanced, nutritious diet, sourced as naturally as possible
• regular exercising
• screening for diseases that may present a risk
• learning to manage stress
• engaging in activities that provide purpose and connection to others
• maintaining a positive outlook and appreciating what you have
• defining a value system, and putting it into action
• Peak health will be different for each person, and how you achieve wellness may be different from how someone else does.
• It may not be possible to avoid disease completely, but doing as much as we can to develop resilience and prepare the body and mind to deal with problems as they arise is a step we can all take.

Impact of ruminant-based agricultural systems

(Source: https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Human+health, https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/senior-health/common-issues/top-ten.aspx, https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/150999.php)

Web Resources

• The University of Michigan

  • The University of Health Service-Recommended Health Websites

• Santa Clara University

  • Human Health & Disease

• Oregon State University

• College of Public Health and Human Sciences

• Dietary Guidelines for Americans

• USDA Nutrition.gov

OSU Extension 

• OSU Extension Service

Publications

• Green space associations with mental health and cognitive function

• Prenatal Depression and Birth Mode Sequentially Mediate Maternal Education’s Influence on Infant Sleep Duration

• Global, national, and urban burdens of paediatric asthma incidence attributable to ambient NO pollution: estimates from global datasets.

• Estimated Long-term (1981-2016) Concentrations of Ambient Fine Particulate Matter across North America from Chemical Transport Modeling, Satellite Remote Sensing and Ground-based Measurements.

• Arsenic exposure and serum antibody concentrations to diphtheria and tetanus toxoid in children at age 5: A prospective birth cohort in Bangladesh

• Health Effects of Household Solid Fuel Use: Findings from 11 Countries within the Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiology Study.

• Hazardous Air Pollutants and Adverse Birth Outcomes in Portland, OR

• Interaction between neighborhood walkability and traffic-related air pollution on hypertension and diabetes: The CANHEART cohort.

• Exposure to ambient air pollution and the incidence of lung cancer and breast cancer in the Ontario Population Health and Environment Cohort (ONPHEC).

• The role of cardiovascular disease in the relationship between air pollution and incident dementia: a population-based cohort study.

• Incidence and mortality for respiratory cancer and traffic-related air pollution in São Paulo, Brazil.

• Means-end problem solving in infancy: Development, emergence of intentionality, and transfer of knowledge.

• A Case Study Describing a Community-Engaged Approach for Evaluating Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Exposure in a Native American Community.

• Mediating role of arsenic in the relationship between diet and pregnancy outcomes: prospective birth cohort in Bangladesh.

• Discovery of common chemical exposures across three continents using silicone wristbands

• Development and Validation of an Environmental Health Literacy Assessment Screening Tool for Domestic Well Owners: The Water Environmental Literacy Level Scale (WELLS).

• Arsenic exposure and serum antibody concentrations to diphtheria and tetanus toxoid in children at age 5: A prospective birth cohort in Bangladesh

• A passive sampling model to predict PAHs in butter clams (Saxidomus giganteus), a traditional food source for Native American tribes of the Salish Sea Region

• Association between heavy metals and antibiotic-resistant human pathogens in environmental reservoirs: A review

• Child Care Publications

• GROW Healthy Kids and Communities Publications

• Occupational Safety and Health Laboratory Publications

• The Kindergarten Readiness Research Program Publication

Organizations 

• Human resources for Health
• American Public Health Association

• Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library

• American Council on Science and Health

• National Fisheries Institute

PowerPoint Slide Sets

• To be added

Oregon Teaching Programs

• Oregon State University College of Public Health and Human Sciences
• Oregon State University Nutrition Education and Outreach Programs
• Oregon State University Nutrition and Healthy Eating

Oregon Extension Programs

• Dartmouth Atlas Project

  • Health Care

• Seafood Health Facts

  • Seafood health facts

• OSU Extension Service

  • Family and Community Health

Oregon Research Programs

• Oregon Health Authority-Evaluation and researches

• Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences Researches

• Oregon State University Research-College of Public Health and Human Sciences

• Portland State University School of Public Health Researches

Research and Applications

• to be developed

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