Health and You

The most precious thing in the world for a human being is his health. Without a healthy life, nothing appears attractive and meaningful. Most of the times, people are unaware of the health care standards and compulsions for this reason, people have unhealthy diet patterns and frequently catch viral infections. The unhealthy diet is the basic reason behind the weakening of immune systems of body. There are people who do not eat healthy food at all because they do not know the importance of each diet element and there are some people who intentionally cut their diet.

The weight loosing trend is increasing in the developed countries due to the availability of numerous options and awareness sources. The reason for increased weight loss awareness may be due to the fact that western country people take in high cholesterol and fatty food items. The inability to burn the consumed fats make most of the people gain weight which is dangerous for the health. So for this reason the United States experts are highlighting health issues on the internet as well as on print media.

The health care research is also advanced in the developed countries. Being the world’s sole super power, United States of America is far ahead of other countries in innovation, pharmacy and medical research. The basic health acre is highly subsidized in public hospitals and nursing home but the private hospital treatments and operations are expensive. Very few countries provide low cost and free medical facilities to its citizens like Canada.

But in rest of the countries people have to spend themselves on their medication. But in developed countries people do not catch diseases frequently which save them from spending huge amounts of money on medical treatments. The patients from other countries of the world seek medical treatments in the western countries due to the advanced technology and facilities available with them. The research and technology is advancing rapidly in such countries which is becoming a source of national income. Medical instruments are prepared in the industries of European and United States’ industries and are exported to the rest of the world. Similar is the case with the medicines. The United States of America manufactures medicines and supplies it to the developing countries as they lack technology as well as expertise to manufacture certain medicines. World health organization is also developed by the advanced nations to help the nations which are far behind in this regard.

The social work profession emerged in the health care first of any other field. The very first social workers were in fact the medical social workers who helped the people injured in the world wars. So the social work as an important place in the health care professions. No doubt it can not directly contribute to the health care of people but it can act as a channel between the patients and doctors.

Especially the poor people can seek the help of the social workers who have been appointed by almost all big hospitals. The social workers in the health care profession are known as clinical and medical social workers. Health care profession surely needs a human element while they treat patients. But most of the times, the doctors can not do proper counseling of the patient and his family. This is the responsibility of social work. The spaces left in every field, which require some kind of humanistic approach and counseling is tackled by social workers. Similar is the trend in health care professions. The hospitals and pharmaceutical firms appoint social workers who can advise about the ethical standards as well as counsel patients.

The health care services are ensured by the socials health workers at community as well as individual levels the governments of developing nations are now realizing the importance of social work profession and are now adopting various strategies of development which require social workers’ services. But in spite all the roles it can play for the socio economic prosperity, it covers unfortunately few areas of health care only. It must be done that all the health care providers get training on social work from the expert social workers so they may not work as machines in their health care institutions.  Many areas are there which require social work’s attention. The awareness about the health care and diseases can be spread by the social workers. This is due to the reason that they may have abilities and skills to communicate with the communities and social gatherings of various social classes to convince them.

This must be done in the developing countries as the developed countries have almost solved their community related problems. Developed countries are far ahead of under developed world in health care services and social work associated with the health services. They have succeeded in introducing human element in the hospitals along with the materialistic approach of treatment.