Everyone wants good health, because it ensures the harmonious development of the individual, determines the ability to work and is the main human need.
And, unfortunately, not everyone is familiar with the factors that determine health. People often shift responsibility to others without caring for themselves. Leading a poor lifestyle, they bring their body into a terrible state by the age of thirty and only then think about medicine.
But doctors are not omnipotent. We ourselves create fate, and everything is in our hands. We will dedicate this in this article, consider the main factors that determine the health of the population.
Human Health Indicators
Let's talk about the components first. Distinguish:
- Somatic. Well-being and vital functions of the body.
- Physical. Proper development and training of the body.
- Mental. Healthy mind and sober mind.
- Sexual. The level and culture of sexuality and child-bearing activity.
- Moral. Compliance with morality, rules, norms and principles in society.
Apparently, the term "health" is an aggregate. Each individual must have an idea of the human body, the work of organs and systems. To know the features of their psychological state, to be able to adjust their physical and mental abilities.
Now let's talk about the criteria that correspond to each component:
- normal physical and genetic development;
- absence of defects, diseases and any deviations;
- healthy mental and mental state;
- the possibility of healthy reproduction and normal sexual development;
- correct behavior in society, compliance with norms and principles, understanding of oneself as an individual and an individual.
We examined the components and criteria, and now let's talk about human health as a value, factors that determine it.
Activity is welcome from an early age.
Distinguish:
- Physical health.
- Mental.
- Moral.
A physically and spiritually healthy person lives in complete harmony. He is happy, receives moral satisfaction from work, is self-improving, and in return he gets longevity and youth.
Human Health Factors
To be healthy and happy, you need to lead a healthy lifestyle. You need to wish for this and strive for the task.
How to achieve this goal:
- Maintain a certain level of physical activity.
- Have emotional and psychological stability.
- Temper.
- Eat right.
- Follow the daily routine (work, rest).
- Forget about bad habits (alcohol, smoking, drugs).
- Observe moral standards in society.
It is very important to lay the foundation of a healthy lifestyle for a child from early childhood, so that later, in the process of building his future, the “walls” are strong and durable.
A person is influenced by many phenomena. Consider the main factors that determine health:
- Heredity.
- The attitude of a person to his own health and his lifestyle.
- Environmental conditions.
- The level of medical care.
These were the key points.
Let's talk more about each
Heredity plays a huge role. If the relatives are healthy and strong, long-livers, the same fate is in store for you. The main thing is to maintain your health yourself.
Lifestyle is what you are. That's right, because proper nutrition, jogging, exercise, a cold shower, tempering - this is your health. One must be able to deny oneself a blessing. Suppose friends are calling to a nightclub, and tomorrow will have a hard working day, of course, it’s better to stay at home, get enough sleep, rather than plunge into work with a bad head, breathing nicotine. This applies to smoking, alcohol and drug use. Must have a head on his shoulders.
There are factors that determine human health that are independent of ourselves. It is an environment. Gas emissions from transport, the use of goods and food from unscrupulous manufacturers, mutating old viruses (flu) and the emergence of new ones all negatively affect our health.
We also depend on the healthcare system in the region in which we live. Medicine in many cases is paid, and not many have the means to get the help of a good, highly qualified specialist.
Thus, we defined health as a value and considered its factors.
Health is a diamond that needs to be cut. Consider two basic rules for building a healthy lifestyle:
It is very important in any training process, whether it is the development of muscles, hardening, correcting posture, mastering training material or mastering a specialty, do everything gradually.
And, of course, do not forget about the systematic, so as not to lose the result, experience and skills.
So, we examined the main factors that determine health, and now let's talk about processes that negatively affect a person’s lifestyle.
What worsens health
Consider risk factors:
- Bad habits (smoking, alcohol, drugs, substance abuse).
- Poor nutrition (unbalanced eating, overeating).
- Depressive and stressful state.
- Lack of physical activity.
- Sexual behavior that leads to sexual infections and unwanted pregnancies.
These are health risk factors. Let's talk about them in more detail.
Let us define the term
Risk factors are confirmed or approximately possible conditions of the internal and external environment of the human body, which are conducive to any ailment. May not be the cause of the disease, but contribute to a greater likelihood of its occurrence, progression and adverse outcome.
What other risk factors exist?
Here are some examples:
- Biological. Bad heredity, congenital malformations.
- Socio-economic.
- Environmental phenomena (poor ecology, especially climatic and geographical conditions).
- Violation of hygiene standards, their ignorance.
- Non-compliance with the regimes (sleep, nutrition, labor and rest, the educational process).
- Unfavorable climate in the family and in the team.
- Poor physical activity and many others.
Having studied examples of risk, a person remains to purposefully, persistently, conscientiously work to reduce them and strengthen health protection factors.
Let us dwell in more detail on physical health. Not only ability to work, but also life activity as a whole depends on it.
Physical health. Physical Health Factors
This is the state of the human body, the characteristic features of which help to adapt to any circumstances when all organs and systems function normally.
It should be noted that maintaining a healthy lifestyle is not just playing sports, observing regimes and proper nutrition. This is a certain attitude that a person adheres to. He is engaged in self-improvement, spiritual development, raises the cultural level. All together makes his life better.
Lifestyle is the first major factor. Prudent human behavior aimed at maintaining one’s health should include:
- compliance with the optimal regime of work, sleep and rest;
- mandatory presence of daily physical activity, but within normal limits, no less, no more;
- complete rejection of bad habits;
- only proper and balanced nutrition;
- learning positive thinking.
It must be understood that it is the factor of a healthy lifestyle that makes it possible to function normally, to fulfill all social tasks, as well as labor, in the family and household sphere. It directly affects how much an individual will live.
50% of a person’s physical health depends on his lifestyle, according to scientists. We proceed to discuss the next question.
Environment
What factors determine human health when it comes to the environment? Depending on its effect, three groups are distinguished:
- Physical. This is air humidity, pressure, solar radiation, etc.
- Biological. May be useful and harmful. This includes viruses, fungi, plants, and even pets, bacteria.
- Chemical. Any chemical elements and compounds that are found everywhere: in the soil, in the walls of buildings, in food, in clothing. As well as electronics surrounding a person.
In total, all these factors make up about 20%; the figure is rather big. Only 10% of the population’s health is determined by the level of medical care, 20% by hereditary factors, and 50% is allocated to lifestyle.
As you can see, the factors that determine the state of human health, a great many. Therefore, it is extremely important not only to eliminate the emerging symptoms of diseases and fight infections. It is necessary to exert influence on all factors that determine health.
It is extremely difficult for one to change the environmental conditions, but everyone is able to improve the microclimate of their housing, carefully choose food products, use clean water, and use less substances that negatively affect the environment.
And finally, let's talk about the factors that determine the level of public health.
Life-shaping circumstances
Consider the most important indicators that affect the level of health:
- Living conditions.
- Harmful habits.
- The relationship between family members, the microclimate, as well as the loss of family values, divorce, abortion.
- Committed crimes, robberies, murders and suicides.
- Change of lifestyle, for example, moving from a village to a city.
- Collisions that occur due to belonging to different religions and traditions.
Now consider the effect on the health of the population of other phenomena.
The negative impact of technological factors
These include:
- Decrease in working capacity of conditionally healthy people, as well as social activity.
- The occurrence of violations in genetics, leading to the appearance of hereditary diseases that will fall on future generations.
- The growth of chronic and infectious diseases among the working population, due to which people do not go to work.
- Reducing the health of children living in contaminated areas.
- Weak immunity in most of the population.
- An increase in the number of patients with oncology.
- Reduced life expectancy in people living in areas with high levels of environmental pollution.
Thus, it is clear that there are many risk factors. This also includes industrial and transport emissions into the atmosphere, dirty effluents into groundwater, landfills, vapors and poisons of which then again with precipitation enter the human environment.
The negative impact on the health of the population of the media can be noted. News on television, periodicals, radio programs, overflowing with negative material, excite people. Thus, they cause a depressive and stressful state, break the conservative consciousness and are a powerful factor harmful to health.
Of paramount importance to humanity is the quality of the water used. It can serve as a source of the spread of terrible infectious diseases.
The soil also has a negative effect on human health. Since it accumulates in itself pollution from industrial enterprises coming from the atmosphere, a variety of pesticides, fertilizers. Pathogens of some helminthiases and numerous infectious diseases can also be stored in it. This poses a great danger to people.
And even the biological components of the landscape are able to harm the population. These are poisonous plants and bites of poisonous animals. And also carriers of infectious diseases (insects, animals) are extremely dangerous.
It is impossible not to say about natural disasters that annually kill more than 50 thousand people. These are earthquakes, landslides, tsunamis, avalanches, hurricanes.
And in conclusion of our article, we can conclude that many literate people do not adhere to the correct way of life, relying on higher powers (maybe it will blow).
Need to rest. Very important is a dream that protects our nervous system. A person who sleeps little, gets up in the morning irritated, broken and angry, often with a headache. Each individual has his own sleep norm, but on average it should last at least 8 hours.
Two hours before a night's rest, stop eating and mental activity. The room should be ventilated, you need to open the window for the night. In no case should you sleep in outerwear. Do not take cover with your head and face your face in a pillow, this interferes with the respiratory process. Try to fall asleep at one time, the body will get used to it and there will be no problems with falling asleep.
But you should not risk your health, you have one life, and you need to live it quality and happy, so that your healthy descendants could enjoy this invaluable gift.