Mildred Blaxter famous quotes

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.
-- Mildred Blaxter

#Health #People #Important

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.
-- Mildred Blaxter

#Health #People #Mind

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.
-- Mildred Blaxter

#Health #Everyday #World

The evidence here, as elsewhere, suggests that education is certainly relevant, but more because better education is associated with general differences in patterns of life than because discrete parts of a lifestyle can be changed. Health-change policies which focus entirely on the individual may be ineffective not only because exposure to health risks is largely involuntary, but also, as this study has shown, because of unwarranted assumptions about the extent to which behaviour can, in these circumstances, be effective in improving health.
-- Mildred Blaxter

#Differences #Focus #Risk

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.
-- Mildred Blaxter

#People #Healthy #Population

Healing requires a legitimated, credible and culturally appropriate system.
-- Mildred Blaxter

#Healing

The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other.

As I see it every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.

Thousands upon thousands of persons have studied disease. Almost no one has studied health.

Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime-it's not very scientific, but it helps.

I am dying with the help of too many physicians.

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.

When something important is going on, silence is a lie.

You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.