EN

CS

DE

PhD

MBA

Study in Europe

Share

León, Spain

University of León

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.unileon.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.

Wikipedia

Health

Healthy does not mean "healthful." Healthy is a condition, healthful is a property. Vegetables aren't healthy, they're dead. No food is healthy. Unless you have an eggplant that's doing push-ups. Push-ups are healthful.

George Carlin, Brain Droppings (1998), p. 120

Wikiquote

Health

If a man is in health, he doesn't need to take anybody else's temperature to know where he is going.

E. B. White, in a letter to the New York Herald Tribune (29 November 1947).

Wikiquote

Health

With your talents and industry, with science, and that stedfast honesty which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself every thing—but health, without which there is no happiness. An attention to health then should take place of every other object. The time necessary to secure this by active exercises, should be devoted to it in preference to every other pursuit.

Thomas Jefferson, letter to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr. (July 6, 1787); in Julian P. Boyd, ed., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson (1955), vol. 11, p. 558.

Wikiquote

Share

list - Doctoral studies - University of León

University
University of León - Presentation of the University

Go to

« back - Doctoral studies

Physical sciences, Earth sciences

The curious case of the disappearing sea rubbish

When you think about the Earth’s oceans you probably imagine stretches of deep, dark water, exotic marine life and pristine waves. You probably don’t think of vast islands of plastic waste such as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an expanse of rubbish which some say is bigger than the continental United States. It was feared that collections of plastic debris like this were growing in line with our increasing rates of plastic production over the past decades. However, scientists have recently discovered that these floating eyesores are mysteriously receding – and that’s actually not a good thing…

StudentNews Group - about us