Health development is the process of continuous, progressive improvement of the health status of individuals and groups in a population.
Reference: Terminology Information System. WHO, Geneva, 1997
The Jakarta Declaration describes health promotion as an essential element of health development.
Source: Holt-LunstadJ, Smith TB, Layton JB (2010) Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Review. PLOS Medicine 7(7): e1000316.
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1000316
