Health
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As of 2011 the average life expectancy in Lebanon was 79.5 years old with 84 years old for the females and 77 for males.
| LEBANON: Health (Source: EIU) | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Life expectancy, average (years) | 78.8 | 78.8 | 78.9 | 79.0 | 79.1 | 79.5 |
| Healthcare spending (% of GDP) | 6.7 | 7.7 | 7.2 | 7.6 | 8.0 | 6.2 |
| Healthcare spending ($ per head) | 233 | 277 | 298 | 300 | 311 | 325 |
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Famous quotes containing the word health:
“We have two kinds of “conference.” One is that to which the office boy refers when he tells the applicant for a job that Mr. Blevitch is “in conference.” This means that Mr. Blevitch is in good health and reading the paper, but otherwise unoccupied. The other type of “conference” is bona fide in so far as it implies that three or four men are talking together in one room, and don’t want to be disturbed.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“The first year was critical to my assessment of myself as a person. It forced me to realize that, like being married, having children is not an end in itself. You don’t at last arrive at being a parent and suddenly feel satisfied and joyful. It is a constantly reopening adventure.”
—Anonymous Mother. From the Boston Women’s Health Book Collection. Quoted in The Joys of Having a Child, by Bill and Gloria Adler (1993)
“The sick man is taken away by the institution that takes charge not of the individual, but of his illness, an isolated object transformed or eliminated by technicians devoted to the defense of health the way others are attached to the defense of law and order or tidiness.”
—Michel de Certeau (1925–1986)