HEALTH AROUND THE GLOBE by: Shehar Bano Mohammed
Someone said it so right that "health is wealth" well certainly i would agree with this statement and if we ponder over deeply we would be amazed at the depth and truth of this statement.Do you know the importance of health today?
A healthy body is a treasure of all the wealth of this world. We cannot deny this fact that if you place all the wealth on one side of balance and health on one side then the wealth would not be able to knock down a single gram of health. Nowadays health issues are a major topic to discuss it has always been a headache to world health organization (WHO) and they always try to sort out the dilemmas regarding health around the globe. Our mother earth is in serious situation now days. Although the new inventions are resulted necessity of people but such needs are born when we make necessities as an excuse to our laziness. Laziness a monster that caused obesity to occupy and overcome our mental abilities and physical activities
Right now the world is facing prodigious problem related health. One billion people around the world lack access to health care system. 36 million deaths each year are caused by non-communicable disease. Such as diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease etc.
Cardiovascular diseases have become so common that every year 17.5 million people die because of it . It is a major health concern and is being accelerated due to issues like obesity and lack of exercise. More over on one side obesity is occupying the world and in the third world countries.Malnutrition is becoming a major cause of deaths. About 7.5 million children die due to starvation every year due to imbalance in the supply of food around the world. The unhygienic condition of food and water in poor countries like Africa leads to cholera, tuberculosis which kills 1.7 million people per arum .this was all related to the health affected by mistake of food. Whereas some of the well developed countries face unusual but expected problems related health i.e. drugs abuse mental illness.
Psychological issue and consequence of unsafe sex.
Now a days there is much awareness about safe sex but even then according to a survey in 2008 approximately 33.4 million people were living with HIV and 2 million deaths caused by AIDS. Though scientist and genetic engineers are dealing with such detrimental and venomous diseases but due to lack of guidance and moral values teenagers are as well as adults of 21st century are carelessly acting on precautions that should have been taken seriously. Teenagers and even some well-educated and well established people consume drugs like tobacco, cocaine, marijuana; heroin because they assumed it is a peace to their body and mind. They cannot imagine the adversity and damage drugs can cause them. Such drugs addicts including alcoholics do damage to themselves as well as the family members and friends around them.
The latest health concerns also highlights dengue along with Ebola caused by peculiar viruses. To deal with such UN countable health relating scenarios, multiple steps and precautions are taken by the government of various countries as well as WHO.
Such organizations are working to create the clean future to protect our health by preventing pollution to ensure safe and sufficient water and to foster sustainable communities.
Solutions discussed to protect health of human beings are numerous such as.
1- Preventing and controlling non-contagious disease by awareness through media, brochures and internet
2- Protecting more children from vaccine-preventable disease through vaccination course check and balance ,
3-Standards of medicine and keeping their cost lower so it is in reach of every infant .
WHO Director-General DR.CHAN said
“In these troubled times, public health looks more and more like a refuge, a safe harbor of hope that allows, and inspires, all countries to work together for the good of humanity”
Therefore all the rich and poor countries on the globe should cooperate and develop the stands for understanding of remedial outcomes to such jeopardizing illness and health concerns
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