How to Harvard reference WHO 1948 definition of health

nir2020

Hi all,

I'm currently completing my access course and I have referenced everything in my current essay correctly so far however I'm struggling with referencing in regard to this quote “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” I know the citation has to be beside it but I'm unsure of what needs to be put into the bibliography.

Thanks!

Reply 1

adam271

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Do you need to quote it? I personally am against unnecessary quotes.

This is the source. https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/44192/9789241650472_eng.pdf
WHO. 2009. [online] Available at: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/44192/9789241650472_eng.pdf [Accessed 15 October 2020].

Personally that definition is in a ton of books you could just quote from any health science textbook.
Don't focus too much on when the individual quote was made it is where you get the information from.
The reason I wrote it as 2009 as because the pdf I found is the 47th edition.
Now you should probably add the page number as to where it is etc and there is a ISBN on it so you could reference it as a book instead of a online web page.

Hopefully that helps somewhat but everyone has different ways referencing.
If you wanted to you could literally just quote the WHO webpage.
WHO. 2020. [online] Available at: https://www.who.int/about/who-we-are/constitution [Accessed 15 October 2020].

Ask your teacher though. Because Personally I would just quote from the WHO website but some teachers dont like too many online references. The teachers mark the work so its really what to they prefer but its not really wrong either way though. Just remember if you quote from the website it is (WHO, 2020). Not 1948. I'm 97% sure on that.

(edited 4 years ago)

Reply 2

nir2020

OP

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Original post by adam271

Do you need to quote it? I personally am against unnecessary quotes.

This is the source. https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/44192/9789241650472_eng.pdf
WHO. 2009. [online] Available at: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/44192/9789241650472_eng.pdf [Accessed 15 October 2020].

Personally that definition is in a ton of books you could just quote from any health science textbook.
Don't focus too much on when the individual quote was made it is where you get the information from.
The reason I wrote it as 2009 as because the pdf I found is the 47th edition.
Now you should probably add the page number as to where it is etc and there is a ISBN on it so you could reference it as a book instead of a online web page.

Hopefully that helps somewhat but everyone has different ways referencing.
If you wanted to you could literally just quote the WHO webpage.
WHO. 2020. [online] Available at: https://www.who.int/about/who-we-are/constitution [Accessed 15 October 2020].

Ask your teacher though. Because Personally I would just quote from the WHO website but some teachers dont like too many online references. The teachers mark the work so its really what to they prefer but its not really wrong either way though. Just remember if you quote from the website it is (WHO, 2020). Not 1948. I'm 97% sure on that.

Adam, thank you for your reply when I read your post I decided to not use it as a quote and instead changed it into my own words but still used it as a reference of course, thank you for taking the time to explain it :smile:

How to Harvard reference WHO 1948 definition of health

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