Health can be defined as the state of one’s well-being as dictated by physical, mental and social conditions. Health has become a very crucial topic among many people in recent times, and health specialists have formulated a number of ways through which one can absolutely maintain his/her health to enjoy a wholesome, largely illness-free life.
But even with such crafted help provided, there are still many who will not be bothered with practising these often simple health measures, and many such individuals suffer easily avoidable health issues later on in life.
It could be that some do not bother themselves about such healthy living guidelines because they do not know about them. So for that reason many organization keep on conducting intense campaigns to disseminate this knowledge about the basic requirements of a good healthy life. These include:
One’s diet
- Your feeding habits will greatly influence your well-being as far as health status is concerned.
- Therefore one is highly advised to adopt a well balanced diet so as to establish a good healthy life.
- However, this has proven quite hard for many people living in poverty.
- Many efforts have been extended by a number of health related organizations to make it possible for such people to improve the circumstances of such people, but they are often unsuccessful because other challenges crop up on the way and thus complicating it further.
- Everyone is entitled to live a healthy life regardless of his/her poverty status as stated by such health organizations.
Access to adequate health care services
- No one can escape the fiend of becoming sick under ideal conditions and this explains the reasons as to why healthcare services are availed.
- Failure to access adequate healthcare services poses health threats that can even cost one’s life.
- The need to obtain such health services when one succumbs to illness is highly emphasized so as to uphold their good health status.
- Many organizations have acted wisely by providing such health facilities to the less fortunate populations and thus enabling such people stand a chance of living a healthy life.
- The fight against contagious infections has also intensified and this is solely aimed at creating awareness to all people about such infections in advance so as to enable them take the necessary preventive precautions.
By Raphael Macharia
Africa Global News Publication
