title: [Exploration on health concept of TCM and the operationalization of its measurement].
abstract: Viewing from the concept of health and several basic characteristics of health outlook of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), assimilating the thinking and procedure of modern scientific research concerning operationalization, in this paper, the TCM concept of health and its measurement operationalization as well as their relevant things were expounded. And the frame, related domain, indexes and items of health assessment scale based upon TCM theory were tried to be established using opertionalization method.
authors.affiliation: Applied Clinical Epidemiology Unit of the Second Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou University of TCM , Guangzhou. darongwu@163.com
authors.forename: Da-Rong
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Shi-Long
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Lai
mesh_terms: D006262:Health; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional