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University of Cantabria

Health Sciences

Ciencias de la Salud

Language: Spanish Studies in Spanish

Subject area: medicine, health care

Kind of studies: full-time studies

University website: www.unican.es

Health

Health is the ability of a biological system to acquire, convert, allocate, distribute, and utilize energy with maximum efficiency. The World Health Organization (WHO) defined human health in a broader sense in its 1948 constitution as "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." This definition has been subject to controversy, in particular as lacking operational value, the ambiguity in developing cohesive health strategies and because of the problem created by use of the word "complete", which makes it practically impossible to achieve. Other definitions have been proposed, among which a recent definition that correlates health and personal satisfaction.

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There are more disorders of the mind than of the body, and they are of a more dangerous nature.

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes (c. 45 BCE), Book III, Section III, p 93, translated by Charles Duke Yonge (1877 edition)

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In minds crammed with thoughts, organs clogged with toxins, and bodies stiffened with neglect, there is just no space for anything else.

Alison Rose Levy, in "An Ancient Cure for Modern Life" in Yoga Journal (January - February 2002).

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There are three wicks you know to the lamp of a man's life: brain, blood, and breath. Press the brain a little, its light goes out, followed by both the others. Stop the heart a minute, and out go all three of the wicks. Choke the air out of the lungs, and presently the fluid ceases to supply the other centres of flame, and all is soon stagnation, cold, and darkness.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), XI.

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