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avoids defining health solely in terms of physical health
and the absence of disease.
This definition emphasizes the
mix.of personal and governmental choices required to create
and maintain a system which 1s health and not illness oriented,
j.e. a system which emphasizes prevention of disease.
It
further serves to remind that health (or the lack of health)
is a product beyond the hospital or dispensary and thereby
beyond the health system currently operating in the United
States (the system upon which that of the Trust Territory is
modeled).
Unfortunately, data by which to assess health in the comprehensive and position fashion espoused by the WHO is not
currently available in the TIPI.
The development of this
plan must re ly upon negative indicators (i.e. rates of
disease present within the population) of physicial health
(i.e. physical health alone, as opposed to the more comprehensive mental and social health described above)-
The only
social indicators currently available ennumerate the
incidence of suicide and violent crime and describe economic
conditions.
The only positive indicators show jmmunization
levels and crude birth rates.
As health planning in-the TTPI
matures, 1t will expand its data base to include more com-
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prehensive and positive oriented data.
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