So what's the message here? Well, a glimpse at newspaper coverage suggests our young people are confirmed as alcohol-swilling, snack-munching slobs. There's an awful lot more here though. The World Health Organization has been at the forefront of setting a holistic agenda for health, defining it here as "a resource for living a productive life".
Is that more than a catchy phrase? It's based in part on diagnoses that show that half of long-term sickness is related to "functional impairment" rather than to a defined disease. We may not suffer nowadays from widespread cholera or whatever - things with a clear pathology - but we do suffer from a more generalised inability to deal with life. So the organisation looked at overall factors that determine young people's health and their own ability to enhance it.
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