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The 1948 World Health Organization definition of health is an ideal, and historically has been problematic to measure. For that reason, measurement has targeted ill-health rather than health. However, newer generations of health measures, such as healthy life expectancy, referred to near the end of the module, are beginning to correct the large imbalance in the orientation of epidemiologic measurement.