Human Health Part II

Economic Health--The sub head may present a bit confounding to many and  clarification needs be added for clear understanding of the matter. Economics is the financial condition of the person, which enables to buy a comfortable living house or shelter, to save from the high and low temperature, rains, snow,storm etc , cozy beds with  proper linen, net ( to repel mosquito or other insects etc where needed in some areas ), essential clothing according to seasonal requirements with protective outer fittings like cap/hats , umbrellas and raincoats etc. For house cleaning purposes modern gadgets like vacuum cleaner, scrubber, floor cleaner etc are also needed to ensure a healthy living. In short maintenance of sanitary and hygienic conditions in house and apartment entails considerable expenditure. Notwithstanding all the preventive measures taken in the house sickness can never be ruled out completely and then medical attention and treatment will be absolutely essential. To call a physician or a surgeon at home has been more and more expensive and the private nursing homes are no exception to this . Health insurance for meeting cost for treating diseases and meeting accidental injuries ( even deaths )  are the best cover up in modern times. Well being of health is not only  dependent on the house environment but also on maintenance of personal hygiene,. Nothing new is to be added in the matter as the lesson begins from very childhood at homes, and then in schools. Nevertheless bad habits and dirty living is not uncommon and specially people belonging to the slum areas bear testimony to such bad practices. Financial incapability is not the last question to explain the habits and it is more related to the social health which will be discussed later. The problem was really very acute till eighteenth centuries when thousands of people used to die from communicable diseases in almost every part of the globe. Mortality from the menace of such diseases has come down even in the underdeveloped/developing countries after improved therapy and preventive measures through the endeavours of hundreds of scientists during the last two hundred years. Sickness is there and will be there and the individual and the state require sizable finance to ensure that lesser number of mandays are lost due to sickness. Unhealthy poeple are not asset to the nation and in fact they are liability and so their number has got to be minimized by means and ways to be devised by the administration of the respective country.  (to be continued...)