The first edition of this health promotion glossary of terms was published by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1986 as a guide to readers of WHO documents and publications. It met a useful purpose in clarifying the meaning and relationship between the many terms which were not in common usage at that time. This first edition of the glossary has been translated into several languages (Fren...

Act: A major division in a play. An act can be sub-divided into scenes. (See scene). Greek plays were not divided into acts. The five act structure was originally introduced in Roman times and became the convention in Shakespeare’s period. In the 19th century this was reduced to four acts and 20th century drama tends to favor three acts. Antagonist: A character or force against which another ch...

Archival Data: Data from existing written or computer records; data that is collected, stored and updated periodically by certain public agencies, such as schools, social services and public health agencies. This data can be cross-referenced in various combinations to identify individuals, groups and geographic areas. Attrition: Loss of subjects from the defined sample during the course of the ...

ability: the exhibition of a change in the appearance of an object insofar as the ground for the determination of this change has its transcendental place in the Nature of the object. The matter of an ability is a power (Kraft); the form of an ability is called a faculty (Vermögen). absolute: being valid in every respect and without restriction. This adjective is the opposite in meaning to bein...

as the financial structure of the public and private corporations in the islamic republic of iran differs from those operating in the west it appears to be a difficult task to find equivalent terminology in farsi for financial terms applied in english and french. by the same token, direct translation of the western financial jargons to farsi results in misunderstanding at hest and confusion at ...

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