Berlin, Germany

Health Sciences

Gesundheitswissenschaften

Language: German Studies in German
Subject area: medicine, health care
University website: www.fu-berlin.de
degree: Dr. med.
Dr. PH
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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Cur moriatur homo, cui salvia crescit in horto?
Why should (need) a man die who has sage in his garden?
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As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body.
Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979).
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Health that snuffs the morning air.
James Grainger, Solitude, An Ode, line 35.
How water interacts with different elements around it, such as soil, ice and structures, can reveal much about evolving climate patterns and help find ways to address global warming.
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