Would you say that you are healthy person?

Knowing how your body has performed, how is it changing, and what to expect of it is important to being healthy. But today, there is more to health that. The World Health Organization define health as:

A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

In other word, being free from physical problem does not necessarily mean that you are being healthy. Mental and social well-being. Must be considered , too.

Mental and social well-being

Since 1900, the leading causes of death have changed. People are more free of diseases that are spread by bacteria and viruses. Now they are becoming free victims of heart attack, high blood pressured cancer and strokes. Can you think many reasons for this change?
Of course, mental health and physical health are closely connected. Can you experience mental and social well-being a painful ear-interaction? Is your attitude about yourself any different during a period in your life when you have acne?

Or can you experience physical well-being when you are constantly under mental are social tension-involved in on ongoing battle with your parents, for example? When you think about it, it is almost impossible separate mental and social health from physical health.

PreventionCan you predict how healthy you will be in the year 2010? Do you know how healthy you will be when you reach 35? Can you tell how healthy you will be the next year, or even a week from now?
While you cannot predict the future certainly, you can get the idea of what your chances are for good health. Is there a new, miracle method of diagnosis to tell you this? no, you can tell your self by reviewing your own day-to-day health habits. If the health habits you practice right now preventive ones, you have a better chance of avoiding or postponing illness and injury.
Good health in later life depends in part on your health behavior right now.
In the 1960’s the Unites state public health service tried to find out why people do or do not take action that prevent illness and injury. They found that people will take preventive action if:

1. They see the health problem as one, which has a good chance affecting them.
2. They think that there would be serious consequences if the problem did affect them.
3. They belief there is a course of action that can reduce the threat.
4. They believe this course of action is reasonable.

Are you feeding your body required nutrients? Think everything that you are ate yesterday. Did you:

1. Eat or drink at least four servings from the milk and cheese group: yogurt, milk, or cheese?
2. Eat at least four servings of fruits and vegetables that are good in source of vitamins: A or C?
3. Eat at least four servings of bread and several products?
4. Eat at least two serving of meat, poultry, fish or beans.
5. Avoid junk food?
6. Have you had your blood pressure taken within the last year?
7. Do you know if there are any substances that you cause you to have contact dermatitis (redness and swelling of the skin)?
8. Do you brush and floss your teeth everyday?
9. Do you know what symptom would make you suspect tat had a sexual transmitted (venereal)?
10. How often do you take over the counter mediations (laxatives, antacids, pains relievers and so forth)?
11. Do you have a record of your inoculations? Do you know if you are still protected by these inoculations?
12. How many hours of sleep do you average at night?
13. Do you routinely do warm up exercise before strenuous physical activity?
14. Do you know the first thing to do that you are burned?
15. Do you wear a safety belt while driving or riding in an automobile?
16. Do you know the seven warning signal of cancer?
17. Do you know how good your vision is?
18. Do you know how to spot medical quackery?

Mental and social well-being

1. Which need seems to cause you the most conflict: you need for dependence or your need for independence?
2. How do you need to fulfill your need to create?
3. Do you have sudden change of mood for no clear reason/
4. Do you have social relationship that you find satisfying?
5. How do you react when you deal with people who are different from you?
6. Name one goal that you have achieved
7. Name of three goals that you have set of for yourself for the future.
8. Do you feel good about being sex you are?
9. How do you relax when you are feeling the effects of stress?
10. Under the condition, would you seek professional help? Where would you go to find it

• So we can conclude that Health is state complete physical , mental, and social well-being.
• Being free of physical problem does not mean that you are healthy.
• Not everyone practice preventives health habits, because people’s information, lack f information, and attitudes vary a great deal.
• One of common for not taking preventive health issue is someone else’s problem.

(Taken from: “HEALTH AND SAFETY FOR YOU SIXTH EDITION”)