Tralee, Ireland

Health & Leisure

Bachelor's
Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: medicine, health care
Qualification: Level 7 NFQ, Level 8 NFQ
Degree - Ordinary Bachelor (Level 7 NFQ)
University website: www.ittralee.ie/
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.
Leisure
Leisure has often been defined as a quality of experience or as free time. Free time is time spent away from business, work, job hunting, domestic chores, and education, as well as necessary activities such as eating and sleeping. From a research perspective, this approach has the advantages of being quantifiable and comparable over time and place.
Health
May be he is not well:
Infirmity doth still neglect all office
Whereto our health is bound.
William Shakespeare, King Lear (1608), Act II, scene 4, line 107.
Leisure
And leave us leisure to be good.
Thomas Gray, Hymn, Adversity, scene 3.
Leisure
Retired Leisure,
That in trim gardens takes his pleasure.
John Milton, Il Penseroso (1631), line 49.
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