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Suppose Mr. Zhang just got an forced-quarantine order and he says
"I don't need any quarantine, I am quite healthy" src
or
... "I am in quite good health" src
or
... "I have quite good health" src
or
... "I'm having quite good health"
Google Ngram verifies some of the uses above.
Do native speakers say it that way?
Are they grammatically correct? Do they mean the same thing? Thanks in advance.
1,2 are fine. There may be differences of nuance.
Healthy goes with "fit and healthy". You can talk about healthy food or healthy lifestyles.
Good health is more to do with the absence of physical or mental disease.
4 is not generally used. It combines the unidiomatic "I'm having" (rarely used in the sense of "possession") with the unidiomatic "have good health"
The meaning of "quite" is subtle, as it can (depending on intonation, dialect, stress) mean both "slightly" or "completely".
