Noun

Singular health

Plural usually uncountable; plural healths

health (usually uncountable; plural healths)

  1. A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity; wellness.
  2. The state of being free of physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction.
  3. Physical condition.
  4. Emotional condition.
  5. The overall level of function of an organism from the cellular (micro) level to the social (macro) level.
  6. (countable) A toast to prosperity.
    • 2002, Joshua Scodel, Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature‎, page 213:
      Strikingly, however, Waller does not deny but rather revels in the claim that healths lead to excessive drinking

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Thu Jan 7 21:11:32 2010

Health is the general condition of a person in all aspects. It is also a level of functional and/or metabolic efficiency of an organism, often implicitly human.

At the time of the creation of the World Health Organization (WHO), in 1948, health was defined as being "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity".

Only a handful of publications have focused specifically on the definition of health and its evolution in the first 6 decades. Some of them highlight its lack of operational value and the problem created by use of the word "complete." Others declare the definition, which has not been modified since 1948, "simply a bad one." [1].

In 1986, the WHO, in the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, said that health is "a resource for everyday life, not the objective of living. Health is a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities." Classification systems such as the WHO Family of International Classifications (WHO-FIC), which is composed of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) and the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) also define health.

Overall health is achieved through a combination of physical, mental, emotional, and social well-being, which, together is commonly referred to as the Health Triangle.

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Sun Jan 3 17:13:13 2010

What is the difference between Health Insurance and Health care Program?
Q. Is it OK to have just the health care program and not have the Health Insurance Plan? I can get Health care program for half the monthly premium as compared to the Health Insurance Plan. Please advise? Is it advisable?
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What are the health benefits of smoking weed?
Q. I am fully aware that weed helps people with medical problems but what I really wanna know is what are the health benefits of smoking weed when it comes to normal healthy people? Why are people so desperate to smoke it?
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What health problems can be caused by eating too much sugar?
Q. I've always liked lots of sugar in my coffee, in my tea. Would this cause certain health problems when I get older, if so, what would they be?
Asked by Party McFarty - Wed Sep 10 08:17:09 2008 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Be sure you make a distinction between sugar from fructose ("bad") and glucose ("good"). Humans are anatomically and physiologically designed to seek and consume sugar. The tip of our tongue tastes with pleasure only one calorie-containing substance, sugar (carbohydrate). Some tissues of our body, such as red blood cells and kidney cells (glomeruli cells) will only burn carbohydrates. Under experimental laboratory conditions, however, where people are overfed large amounts of simple sugars, the human body will resort to converting a small amount of sugar into a small amount of fat (triglycerides) in the liver. Yet other studies comparing sugar intake with risk of developing type-2 diabetes show people on high sugar diets are less likely… [cont.]
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Sat Jan 9 14:00:20 2010

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  • The best six doctors anywhere And no one can deny it Are sunshine, water, rest, and air Exercise and diet. These six will gladly you attend If only you are willing Your mind they'll ease Your will they'll mend And charge you not a shilling.
    • Anonymous nursery rhyme set to the tune of "Yankee Doodle", quoted in "The Health Club" in School Life, Vol. IV (January - June 1920), p. 17
  • I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a good rousing sneeze, one that tears open your collar and throws your hair into your eyes, is really one of life's sensational pleasures.
    • Robert Benchley, in "Hiccoughing Makes Us Fat" in No Poems: or Around the World Backwards and Sideways (1932)
  • I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
  • Thank Him for health. Consecrate it as His trust to innocent enjoyment, manly effort, social usefulness, and preparation for an honorable and holy career.
    • William Ellery Channing, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 299.
  • Tous les jours, à tous points de vue, je vais de mieux en mieux.
    • Day by day, in every way, I'm getting better and better.
      • Émile Coué, in his auto-suggestive formula for health, as quoted in The Practice of Autosuggestion by the Method of Emile Coué (1922) by Cyrus Harry Brooks
    • Variant translation: Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better.
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Insurers and employers could penalize workers thousands of dollars for pre-existing conditions under the Senate's . health. -care reform bill, according to a long list of academics, advocates and medical societies, which are pushing for ...

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UPDATE II: A response from Rubio's campaign, too: No one should be fooled by Charlie Crist's latest attempt at an extreme makeover. President Obama is now.

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