Concept of Health

Health for All

In september 1978 an international conference on primary health care

was held at Alma-Ata, U.S.S.R. which issued a declaration stating that primary health care is the key to attaining "Health for all by the year 2000 The member states of W.H.O. agreed and were quick to respond to the call.

Health forall' does not mean that in the year 2000 doctors and nurses will provide medical care to everybody in the world for all their existing diseases.

Physical health means that an individual should be physically fit. The body organs are structurally (anatomical point of view) and functionally (physiology point of view) in a normal state and there is perfect co-ordination between the organs and systems that the body as a whole functions in perfect harmony

When a person is sick and suffering from a disease, he does not feel like eating anything, he gets weak, he does not want to talk and gets irritated even on minor matters, he does not take interest in wordly affairs, he feels depressed and miserable and his working capacity decreases

Absence from sickness or disease does not mean that a person is healthy. Apart from sickness and disease, a healthy person should not have any physical handicap i.e. there should not be crippled arms or legs.

Physical health is an important component of total health. It includes hygiene of different parts of the body such as skin,hair,teeth,ear,eye,hands,feet etc.

Thus physical health means that an individual should be free from

Sickness and disease including comunicable and non-commmunicable diseases and there should not be any deformity of the body like of the limbs or damaged eyes.

2. MENTAL HEALTH

These are the days of anxiety, worry and tension and the problem of mental illness is increasing day by day not only in India but throughout the world specially in developed countries rather than developing

countries. In U.S.A. nearly half of the beds in hospitals are occupied by mental patients. This is because of so called fastness in life,functions in perfect harmony

 Man has become so instrumental and self centred that he has forgotten loving each other. With the advance-ment of knowledge and skills gained about modern machanisation the man has reduced himself to a negligible part of the total machinery.

The man, today has become lonely in a crowd with degradation of human values, loss of social ties, self centred life, lack of opportunities, deprivation and

increase in the expectations due to excessive use of mass media.