Although we are prepared to spend dizzying sums on health care no one seems quite sure what health is. The World Health Organization made a bold offer in 1948. Their definition of health is ânot merely the absence of disease or infirmity but a state of complete physical, mental and social well-beingâ. But this utopian vision is an unattainable ideal, bearing no relation to the struggles of real people in an imperfect world.
causing the Great Depression. The effects of the Great Depression were huge across the world. Not only did it lead to the New Deal in America but. more significantly, it was a direct cause of the rise of extremism in Germany leading to World War II.
African Americans, Impact of the Great Depression on. The Great Depression brought mass suffering to all regions of the country. National income dropped by 50 percent and unemployment rose to an estimated 25 percent of the total labor force.