Saturday, 14 May 2016

Physical Health

Physical exercise makes a person physically fit.
Physical health is critical for overall well-being and is the most visible of the various dimensions of health, which also include social, intellectual, emotional, spiritual and environmental health. Long-term coughing, fevers, or other ailments should be addressed through primary care. Emergency treatment should be sought when signs and symptoms are significant or life-threatening. Physical health consists of many components, here is a brief list of the key areas that should be addressed:

·         Physical activity - includes strength, flexibility, and endurance

·         Nutrition and diet - includes nutrient intake, fluid intake, and healthy digestion

·         Alcohol and drugs - includes the abstinence from or reduced consumption of these substances

·         Medical self-care - includes addressing minor ailments or injuries and seeking emergency care as necessary

·         Rest and sleep - includes periodic rest and relaxation, along with high quality sleep

 Some of the most obvious and serious signs that we are unhealthy appear physically. Addressing this dimension is crucial for anyone attempting to sustain overall health and wellness. Most healthy children and adults should be active on a daily basis. This should be a mix of both leisurely physical activity and structured exercise. Examples of leisurely physical activity include hiking, biking, and walking.

Restricting specific nutrients should only be done under the supervision of a licensed health professional. Fluid, ideally in the form of clean water, should be regularly consumed. Substances that alter mood or other bodily processes should be limited or avoided.


Friday, 13 May 2016

Environmental Health

Environmental health are the factors outside of the body that can affect well being or behaviour.
polluted environment causes various viral diseases
 These may include the quality of a person's air, food and supply or their exposure to hazardous materials.
Prevention from the illness, injury or diseases in the community is essential to good environmental health.

The term "Environmental Health" refers to many different factors in a person's surroundings.Generally, environmental health is releated with the following factors:
healthy environment, healthy life

  • Air 
  • Water
  • Food and safety
  • Waste disposal
  • Hazardous substances

Mental Health




Mental health is a level of psychological well-being, or an absence of a mental illness. It is the psychological state of someone who is functioning at a satisfactory level of emotional and behavioral adjustment.
From the perspective of positive psychology or holism, mental health may include an individual's ability to enjoy life, and create a balance between life activities and efforts to achieve psychological resilience.

 Mental illnesses are more common than cancer, diabetes, or heart disease. Over 26 percent of all Americans over the age of 18 meet the criteria for having a mental illness. Serious mental disorders affect an estimated 6 percent of the adult population, or approximately 1 in 17 people. A little more than half receive treatment. A WHO report estimates the global cost of mental illness at nearly $3 trillion in 2010, with a projected increase to over $6 trillion by 2030.

Mental health and stability is a very important factor in a person’s everyday life. Social skills, physical skills, and someone’s way of thinking are just some of the things that the human brain develops at an early age.


 Learning how to interact with others and how to focus on certain subjects are essential lessons to learn from the time we can talk all the way to when we are so old that we can barely walk. However, there are some people out there who have difficulty with these kind of skills and behaving like an average person.

Health Education


Knowledge of health education helps people be healthy
                          "Health education is a process that informs, motivates and helps people to adopt and maintain healthy practices and lifestyles, advocates environment changes and needed to facilitate this goal and conducts, professional training and research to the same end."

                         Health education is a profession of educating people about health. Areas within this profession encompass environmental health, physical health, social health, emotional health, intellectual health, and spiritual health. Health education can be defined as the principle by which individuals and groups of people learn to behave in a manner conducive to the promotion, maintenance, or restoration of health.
 In order to keep the environment healthy one should have the knowledge of health education and should be applied that knowledge in their life style.


                            However, as there are multiple definitions of health, there are also multiple definitions of health education. The "World Health Organization" defined Health Education as "comprising of consciously constructed opportunities for learning involving some form of communication designed to improve health literacy, including improving knowledge, and developing life skills which are conducive to individual and community health."

Thursday, 12 May 2016

Health


               Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being of an individual. The word health is an important factor today in everybody life because if we are physically and mentally healthy then we can definitely enjoy a healthy life too.

A good and a strong health is not something that is sold at a grocery store but it is something that we have to create and also maintain at the same time.
 A good health is achieved by following a few collective patterns which are health related. If we follow this logic then we will also realise the importance of having a healthy lifestyle which will add to the benefits of having a healthy life.
to live a happy life, a person needs to be mentally and physically healthy.
            

               One can start with following the pattern of eating the right things at the right time and also exercising too. These healthy patterns will help to lead to reduced illness which in turn will also help save a lot of money that we turn up spending for recovering from various illnesses.