One of the title words on the book cover below has been covered up. Can you work out what the word is?

Here is an excerpt from the synopsis:
What is Health _ _ _ _ _ _ _ about?
Health _ _ _ _ _ _ _ is an innovative new book about lifestyle, disease risks, diseases and treatments covering a vast range of subjects from period pains to heart attacks; spots to skin cancer; itchy bums to sore heads; and big ears to big bellies.
Do you have the answer yet? OK, here are a couple of clues:
- The title, which is a play on words, is a bit of a cliché. The same formula has been used for the titles of books on football, money, family, etc.
- The title means, ‘Issues related to health ‘
- The title also means, ‘Health is important‘
Now if we were in the classroom, we could play hangman with the missing seven-lettered word. But since we’re not, I’ll have to give you the link to the book: Click here.
Perhaps this title could be described as a Parser Pun. The word ‘matters‘ can be comprehended as either a verb in the third person singular form or as a plural noun.
Here are some more examples of this formulaic title:

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1 Aimee // Nov 1, 2009 at 1:43 pm
I used this a couple of weeks ago with my b1 group. It went really well, despite the fact that it was Friday morning at 8:00, which is always our most challenging classtime. I enjoyed the lesson, even though it required teaching “period pains” to an all-male group of 20-year-olds! It took about 25 minutes.
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