Mildred Blaxter Quotes

#1. Healing requires a legitimated, credible and culturally appropriate system.

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#2. Health is not, in the minds of most people, a unitary concept. It is multi-dimensional, and it is quite possible to have 'good' health in one respect, but 'bad' in another.

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#3. Substantial proportions of the population did not see health as the most important thing in life - and these were more likely to be people with more, rather than less, education.

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#4. Health can be defined negatively, as the absence of illness, functionally, as the ability to cope with everyday activities, or positively, as fitness and well-being. It has also been noted that in the modern world, health still has a moral dimension.

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#5. It is certainly not true that the population can be easily divided into those who lead healthy lifestyles, and those who do not: most people's patterns are mixed, with both good and bad areas of life.

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