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Health
HEALTH The word "health" derives from Middle English helthe, meaning hale, hearty, sound in wind and limb. Dictionary definitions allude to soundness and efficient functioning and give the same meaning to financial health as to bodily health. Modern medical...
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Health Educator
HEALTH EDUCATOR A health educator informs people about the causes and prevention of health problems, especially those that relate to lifestyle, work, and cultural factors. Health educators help people to improve their health through consulting, education,...
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Boards of Health
BOARDS OF HEALTH Citizen boards of health were first formed in the late 1700s to control epidemics and poor sanitary conditions. By the end of the twentieth century, there were approximately 3,200 local boards of health in the United States. There are...
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Director of Health
DIRECTOR OF HEALTH "Director of Health" is a term characteristically used to describe the chief executive officer of a local or state health department. Sometimes the title "Health Commissioner" is used in local agencies. Approximately one-third of local...
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Right To Health
RIGHT TO HEALTH The phrase "right to health" is not a familiar one, although the constitution of the World Health Organization and a number of international human rights treaties recognize the right to the "highest attainable standard" of health. Although...
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Family Health
FAMILY HEALTH Family health is a state in which the family is a resource for the day-to-day living and health of its members. A family provides its individual members with key resources for healthful living, including food, clothing, shelter, a sense...
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Social Health
SOCIAL HEALTH The concept of social health is less intuitively familiar than that of physical or mental health, and yet, along with physical and mental health, it forms one of the three pillars of most definitions of health. This is partly because social...
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Health Books
HEALTH BOOKS There is a vast range of books available to the public about health, including volumes focused on specific illnesses, therapies, and prevention strategies, along with various compendia—many of which are targeted to a specific audience (such...
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Prison Health
PRISON HEALTH In the United States, prison health care, and the study of health and medical problems of prisoners, is a recent phenomenon. Prior to 1970, medical care in jails and prisons was under the direction of county sheriffs or prison wardens. Neither...
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Health Goals
HEALTH GOALS Health goals can provide direction to health policy, guide efforts to improve health, and help to evaluate progress. A goals process almost always leads to greater emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention. The idea of specifying...
Healthiest Fast Food Tournament
Healthline pits 16 fast foods against each other in a head-to-head tournament to find out which is the healthiest option out there.
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