Health and You

Archive for November 17th, 2009

Health care is the term which refers to the maintenance of health by controlling and managing the illness and diseases, for both mental and physical fitness. But most of us do not consider the mental disorders as a part of health. Even the social well being is included in the world health organization’s definition of health. Health is incomplete without social well being.

More over, the social problems make a person psychologically and physically ill. So it can not be excluded from the definition of health. The minor depression and tension caused by the social situations which are unfavorable are unhealthy. And every unhealthy activity will be considered as the illness or disease. Most of us have no awareness about the importance of health and its care.

The maintenance of health is necessary for us if we want to live a happy and energetic life. The social attitudes must be changed regarding health care people are not conscious of the diseases that spread by various sources. The protection from depression and anxiety is also what is health care. The need of this time is that we must have a favorable attitude towards health care. The health care involves treatment and health counseling but how many of us bother to seek such services?

The developed country citizens are more conscious of health care as compare to the developing country nationals. The developing countries usually have poor sanitation and health management facilities. Along with this they lack awareness about the importance of health care. Due to immense poverty, people of developing countries allocate very low budget to the health care services. Similar is the case with the governments of the developing nations. They spend very low amount of GDP on the health care of the citizens. The supportive attitudes can be developed only if the non governmental organizations play their role in this regard.

The non governmental organizations are the only means through which prosperity can be brought in the developing countries. The awareness of the people can be increased by conducting advertisement campaigns, door to door counseling and through the work shops. The seminars must be conducted by advocating agencies which invite the doctors and health experts who can tell the people about health standards. The education institutions especially the schools, must arrange visits of doctors and experts to guide the students about the attitude which is desirable for health care management.