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Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Health at global level
8:58 AM |
Why it is important to consider health at the global level?
Since human started to evolve, the principle of life has been to achieve better and better conditions of living. Our purpose is to produce higher stages of living and an advanced quality of life for us and what is more significant, for our successors, family members and for other people. It is very important for our well-being, to make life comfortable and live in harmony with others.
If we would like to measure the quality of life there would be 9 factors (according to Wikipedia - Quality-of-life index topic):
- Health
- Family life
- Community life
- Material well being
- Political stability and security
- Climate and geography
- Job security
- Political freedom
- Gender equality
The most relevant part for us is the first one, because Health has the most important effect on the life quality.
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Buddha
Organisations and governments and every other people should take care of Public Health because there is an inequality between rich and poor countries and yearly millions of people die from hunger, dirty water, lack of education, inadequate prevention, inequal medical treatment, etc. Many people pass away because of poverty while others are throwing money out the window. In my opinion it is unacceptable and it should be rearranged.
This video represents what I mean, because Malaria, which is yet a curable and preventable disease is still the killer number one in Ethiopia:
Other big problem in public health is the HIV virus, which could be avoided with better educational backgrounds:
Percentage of men and women aged 15-24 with comprehensive correct knowledge of HIV, in 78 low- and middle income countries (2000-2006) - UNICEF
To avoid global epidemics we should decrease the number of infected people, because the mutation of bacterias and viruses can cause several resistances, and even new "unknown" illnesses which might not be treated and it can cause several loss of life worldwide. We cannot expect that there would be no new dangerous epidemics.
International public health security is both a collective aspiration and a mutual responsibility.
Margaret Chan
WHO director-general
In my opinion public health in global level should be considered very seriously, because without it I cannot even imagine how worse the situation would be of the rapidly-spreading AIDS, and other illnessess.
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