Human Health

Continued--High rates of morbidity and mortality of humans not only bring loss to individual in every respect but also go to destroy the social and economic fabric with the inevitable consequence of retardation of the development of the nation as a whole. High mortality reduces the working force and high morbidity hampers the normal working . It is one of biggest headaches of every nation /country to bring down the high rates of mortality and morbidity. Concept of health care is nothing new but it was basically confined in certain countries. From 18th centuries the knowledge  on health matters started to expand and medical personnel got involved to find the sources of the illness and means how to cure the ailing personnel and protect the others from attack of the illness. The last two hundred years found in the medical world revolutionary discoveries and inventions which helped to wipe out most of the communicable diseases from the face of the world. Curative treatment was the only directive in the past and the then available medicines could do whatever was possible for them. Subsequently the idea of preventive treatment rather coverage grew as remarkable bio findings were searched out by savants from various streams . Gradually the expression " prevention is better than cure " came to be recognized in the medical world . This essay does not aim to provide the information on the different preventive vaccines/inoculations/ingestion etc as to who discovered when to prevent occurrence of the malady. It is a long history how these wonderful discoveries have been made after painstaking researches over long periods and how the humans have been benefited by the application of them. On the other side of curative treatment, some marvelous medicines , diagnostic tools, highly modernized laboratories , patient care with monitoring attachment have totally changed the approach to treat the sick persons . Modern hospitals are gradually being converted into Super Special Hospitals providing the most available modern treatment. The earth has now shrunk into global village and any new discovery/invention in any part of the world spread very rapidly to every corner of the globe. However the underdeveloped/developing countries have not been able to expand their health services so as to cater to every person in the country.

                        To coordinate and help  develop health  services in the matter there is an organization known as "World Health Organization " (WHO) under the UNO which acts as Nodal Body that not only guides in formulating matters in the member countries, but provide help in various ways to all the countries where needed and monitor the overall health position in the periodicals published by them. The role of WHO is so important and the services it renders to all the member countries can not be described in a sentence or a paragraph. It suffices to say that WHO 's contribution has saved trillions of dollars by helping to reduce  mortality and morbidity rate  in all the member countries and to ensure healthy citizens to work for the development of those countries by working properly and timely.
         
                         To conclude this article it needs be mentioned that there are reports that in some countries adulterated medicines or medicines with  lower or no potential value are marketed and sold ..If the manufacturer and the seller of the adulterated medicine if caught escape with minimum or no punishment due to the country law being too soft and/or the inspecting authority being lax / dearth of proper testing laboratory in the country. The countries where commitment of such crimes is rampant has to make such legislation to punish adequately for such crimes and simultaneously strengthening the infrastructure and enforcing strict administration . There appears no other alternative way to check commitment of such crimes. The people of the affected country should move their government in this direction and if they fail to do so,they will continue to suffer.

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continued---How to arrange food for everybody throughout the world is not the concern of this article ;  the objective being of providing such quality and quantity of food to make a healthy living without being subject to frequent ill health and morbid conditions. There are measures of adequate food in varying proportions for each category or class of people like child male/female, adult male/female depending from heavy manual worker to white colored sedentary workers, old people male/female and so on and so forth. The quality of food is and includes balance diet which should comprise carbohydrate, protein, fat, essential minerals and vitamins (the absence of any of which may bring in disease ), unadulterated, free from all toxin producing substances , unpleasant smell of rotten items sealed in containers, easily digestible for easy assimilation and absorption in the system producing required calories. To attain the aforesaid goals of providing such safeguards is stupendously onerous task which come to devolve on many agencies from the administration of the country to the kitchens of the individuals. To discuss every detail will occupy lengthy space which is considered to be unnecessary as people by and large in the twenty first century have learnt the basics what to eat and what to reject for a healthy living. What however remains to be mentioned in this context that the prevention of food adulteration law/food security laws in many countries particularly in the under developed or developing countries are either porous and the offenders escape easily or non-existent or hardly applied , and as a sequel of the laxity the adulteration in those countries has taken a firm root. Even the giant food commercial agencies with international reputations have been found to market such food products containing ingredients harmful to human health.. Itinerant food sellers or even the roadside food stalls are hardly reliable to provide quality food. Town and city restaurants by and large do scarcely pay heed to  the sanitary and hygienic norms and thus those who rely mostly on these food outlets become victims of various ailments. Home made food is the best security towards maintaining perfect health as the kitchen is the most ideal place to supply most healthy diet and not only that it is the home kitchen which acts as the first laboratory of physics, chemistry and pharmacy even it prepare many remedies to ward off routine illness. The kitchen may also act as the right place how to control the economy of the family by preparing correct budget  to buy the raw materials for preparation of food . People often bank on fast food in the streets as the modern life is too fast to spend time in the kitchen. This is not true , what is required is a little more effort spend half an hour time to make any healthy food in the kitchen and go out to meet the fast life.
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