Social Health

• Elders always instruct you to get out of the home to interact with relatives and others and play outdoor games but not to spend time continuously with television, phone and internet.
• Our lifestyle has been changed to some extent in this age of technology.
• Each person is busy with own daily routine work and favourite job only.
• Earlier, we have studied the importance of physical health, cleanliness and staying healthy.
• The concept of health does not end with physical health only.
• To maintain a good atmosphere in a home with a chronically ill older person, it's important to create a safe and comfortable environment, provide support and assistance, and foster a positive relationship between the caregiver and the older adult.
• Changes in a home having a chronically ill older person include changes in the physical environment, changes in the caregiver's role, and changes in the relationship between the caregiver and the older adult.
• To correct the situation and implement changes in a residential area, it's necessary to identify the necessary changes and implement those changes.
• Various ways to minimize stress include exercise, meditation, and relaxation techniques.
• Various factors affecting the social health in a residential area include changes in the physical environment, changes in the caregiver's role, and changes in the relationship between the caregiver and the older adult.
• Social health is the ability of a person to establish relationship with other persons.
• Ability to change one’s own behaviour according to changing social conditions is an important characteristic of social health.
• Various factors like strong personality, having large number of friends and relatives, proper use of time during loneliness and with peer-group, trust in others, respect and acceptance for others are important for good social health.
• Various factors affect the social health.
• Mental Stress is a factor affecting the social health.
• Competition has increased in opportunities for education, employment and business due to increase in population.
• Children are facing the problems of loneliness and mental stress due to reasons like nuclear family and parents staying outdoors due to job.
• Girls are facing the problem of stress due to gender inequality.
• Peer-group influence is stronger in case of adolescents.
• Adolescents always prefer the company of friends and follow their good or bad habits instead of following advice of parents and teachers.
• Children in their early age try upon tobacco, cigarette, gutkha, alcoholic drinks, drugs, etc due to either peer-group pressure or symbol of high standard living or as an imitation of elders.
• Ignorance towards the peoples suffering from chronic diseases like AIDS, T.B, Leprosy and Mental health / disorders and old persons leads to increase old age homes and this may cause harm to social health.
• Misuse or illegal sale of the written literature, software, photos, videos, music, etc of others by obtaining from internet is called as piracy.
• Medical science has declared such activities as mental illness.
• The mentality of such people is usually under stress and their activities are bursting of stress.
• Stress management includes various ways of expression like establishing communication with friends, peers, cousins, teachers and more importantly parents, noting down our feelings, expressing our feeling with near and dear ones.
• Crimes like opening a fake account on Facebook and displaying false information and thereby teasing the girls or exploiting them financially are examples of cyber crime.
• Maharashtra is at forefront in controlling the cybercrimes and it has been proved to be a first state to start a separate cyber crime unit.
• Learning and listening to the music, singing keeps us happy and drives away the stress, music has the power of changing the mindset.
• Cyber crime unit has been newly launched in police department, cyber crime experts collect the details, investigate the cyber crime and thereby find the criminal with the help of internet.
• Banks continuously spread the message on mobile phones about not to disclose the aadhar / PAN / credit card / debit card number and other personal information if demanded by any person.
• Fostering the hobbies like material collection, photography, reading, cooking, sculpturing, drawing, rangoli, dancing, etc help us to properly utilize the free hours.
• Confidential information about government, institutes and companies is obtained from internet with the help of computer programs or other ideas and misused, this is called as hacking of information.
• IT Act-2000 has been enacted since 17th October 2000 and been amended in 2008, person committing the cyber crime has to face the punishment like imprisonment for 3 years of fine up to 5 lakh.
• Exchange of information through media like email, Facebook and Whatsapp occurs very fast, however, our personal information and phone numbers are automatically spread and thereby reaches the unwanted persons which leads to malpractices like incoming of unnecessary messages.
• Persons indulging in selfie are not aware about the world around and the risks, this is called as selfiecide.
• Persons indulging in domestic violence, sending messages to others before committing suicide or those who send the video clips of suicidal act are mentally ill and they do so to win the sympathy.
• Bank transactions are done using PIN without the knowledge of consumers.
• Electronic media is also misused by sending derogatory messages, spreading vulgar pictures and inflammatory statements.
• Consumers are deceived by showing superior items on websites but actually selling the items of either inferior quality or impaired ones.