title: Health redefined: look it up.
abstract: Health care providers always have shaped their definition of health around one single interpretation: absence of disease. In recent years, there has been growing recognition that health extends far beyond medical perimeters and walks a fine line with societal issues and pressures, for each societal ill bears its own unique health care price tag.
authors.affiliation: New Jersey Hospital Association, USA.
authors.forename: G S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Carter
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics; D006262:Health; D006801:Humans; D009515:New Jersey