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health| Term to define state of well-being or absence of illness. Health may be used by people to mean different things, and could be said to mean the ‘absence of significant illness’. It is a term that is used when considering how to improve people's lives and live longer. |
Factors in health Studies show that several important factors contribute to poor health. One of these is genetic, in other words the genes that are inherited. It has been shown that the chance of a person suffering an illness is greater if their close relations suffer that illness. For example, heart disease can run in families. But some factors are under one's own control. These are lifestyle factors. |
| Regular, moderate exercise is shown to improve health. Smoking is bad for health in several ways – increasing the risk of developing many diseases of the air passages as well as other parts of the body. Diet can also influence health. Excess alcohol can be damaging and a high-fat diet can increase the risk of heart attack later in life. However, as with many aspects of health, the effects of these factors is not clear cut and can affect people in different ways. |
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Baker, Sara Josephine
Caplan, Arthur L
Chapin, Charles Value
Elders, Joycelyn
Enthoven, Alain
Health and Human Services, Department of
Health and Safety Commission
health education
health service
Health, Department of
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medical technology, 20th century
medicine, 19th-century
Newman, George
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| These included toxicology, physiology, pharmacology, industrial hygiene, occupational medicine, epidemiology, exposure assessment, radiation and health physics, analytical chemistry, organic chemistry, biochemistry, ecology, and others that developed more recently, such as molecular biology and exposure science. Their calculations, presented in the December 2004 Health Physics, indicate that residues from the water left each heating tank with up to 69 grams of uranium, depending on the tank's age and the household's water use. The kittens are being cared for by health physics specialists during the decontamination period, and they are being fed through an eyedropper. |