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S: WHO – http://www.who.int/en/ (last access: 21 September 2014); http://www.health.gov/ (last access: 21 September 2014).

N: 1. Old English hælþ “wholeness, a being whole, sound or well,” from Proto-Germanic *hailitho, from PIE *kailo- “whole, uninjured, of good omen” (cognates: Old English hal “hale, whole;” Old Norse heill “healthy;” Old English halig, Old Norse helge “holy, sacred;” Old English hælan “to heal”). With Proto-Germanic abstract noun suffix *-itho (see -th (2)). Of physical health in Middle English, but also “prosperity, happiness, welfare; preservation, safety.”
2. health, in human beings, the extent of an individual’s continuing physical, emotional, mental, and social ability to cope with his environment.
This definition, just one of many that are possible, has its drawbacks. The rather fragile individual who stays “well” within the ordinary environment of his or her existence may succumb to a heart attack from heavy shovelling after a snowstorm; or a sea-level dweller may move to a new home in the mountains, where the atmosphere has a lower content of oxygen, and suffer from shortness of breath and anemia until his red blood cell count adjusts itself to the altitude. Thus, even by this definition, the conception of good health must involve some allowance for change in the environment.
3. Bad health can be defined as the presence of disease, good health as its absence—particularly the absence of continuing disease, because the person afflicted with a sudden attack of seasickness, for example, may not be thought of as having lost his good health as a result of such a mishap.
Actually, there is a wide variable area between health and disease.
4. Collocations:

• Common collocations after ‘health’: food, care, claim, benefit, problem, insurance, store, will, has, well, other, long, animal, world, happiness.
• Common collocations before ‘health’: good, own, bad, many, will, better, may, after, much, back, see, has, poor, also, between.
• Common collocations of ‘health’: good, food, care, claim, benefit.
• Adjectives collocated with ‘health’: excellent, full, good, perfect, bad, declining, delicate, failing, fragile, frail, ill, poor, general, mental, physical, sexual, environmental, occupational, public, human.
• Verbs collocated before ‘health’: enjoy, have, look after, maintain, improve, promote, recover, Regain, nurse sb back to, damage, harm, ruin, undermine, risk.
• Verbs collocated after ‘health’: improve, deteriorate, fail, worsen.
• Nouns collocated after ‘health’: CARE, authority, board, issue, needs, problem, hazard, risk, education, centre, insurance, food, professional, visitor, worker, warning, minister.

S: 1. OED – http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=health (last access: 21 September 2014). 2 & 3. EncBrit – http://global.britannica.com/topic/health (last access: 28 July 2015). 4. http://prowritingaid.com/collocations-dictionary/health/Collocations-of-health.aspx (last access: 15 may 2015).

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CR: acatalasemia, ambulatory care, disease, disinfection, healthiness, health services, healthy behavior, healthy climate, hygienic habits, ill-health, infusion, medicine, mental health, public health.