BASIC INTERVENTION TO MAINTAIN HEALTHY LIFESTYLE

• COMPONENTS OF HEALTHY LIFESTYLE

  1.     Nutrition

  2.     Physical Activity

  3.     Sleep Hygiene

  4.     Stress Management
• Nutrition

  o   Importance of balance diet
• Nutrition

  o   Dietary guidelines and healthy eating habits
• Physical Activity

  o   Benefits of exercise for overall health
• Physical Activity

  o   Types of exercises and recommended durations
• Sleep Hygiene

  o   Tips for improving sleep
• Sleep Hygiene

  o   Importance of quality sleep
• Stress Management

  o   Understanding stress and its impact to health
• Stress Management

  o   Coping strategies and relaxation techniques
• Health is a complete state of physical, mental, social and spiritual wellbeing and not merely as an absence of a disease or infirmity.
• Health is an ideal state of physical and mental wellbeing, something to strive for but never to attain.
• Good health is a prerequisite of human productive and developmental.
• In 1948 the world health organization (WHO) defines health as,

  o   "A state of complete physical, mental, social, spiritual wellbeing and not merely absence of disease or infirmity”
• “Dynamic state in which the individual adapts to changes in internal and external environments to maintain a state of wellbeing " (Potter and Perry, 2014)
• "Health as a state of being well and using every power the individual possesses to the fullest extent" (Nightingale, 1960/1969)
• Health is evolved over the centuries as a concept from individual concern to worldwide social goal and encompasses the whole quality of life.
• CONCEPTS OF HEALTH

  o   Biomedical concept

  o   Ecological concept

  o   Psychosocial concept

  o Holistic concept
• BIOMEDICAL CONCEPT

  Traditionally, health has been viewed as an "absence of disease". and if one was free from disease, then the person was considered healthy.
• BIOMEDICAL CONCEPT

  The medical profession viewed the human body as a machine, disease as a consequence of the breakdown of the machine and one of the doctor's tasks as repair of the machine.
• ECOLOGICAL CONCEPT

  Form ecological point of view; health is viewed as a dynamic equilibrium between human being and environment, and disease a maladjustment of the human organism to environment.
• ECOLOGICAL CONCEPT

  According to Dubos "Health implies the relative absence of pain and discomfort and a continuous adaptation and adjustment to the environment to ensure optimal function."
• ECOLOGICAL CONCEPT

  The ecological concept raises two issues, viz. imperfect man and imperfect environment.
• PSYCHOSOCIAL CONCEPT

  According to psychosocial concept, "health is not only biomedical phenomenon, but is influenced by social, psychological, cultural, economic and political factors of the people concerned."
• HOLISTIC CONCEPT

  This concept is the synthesis all the above concepts.
• HOLISTIC HEALTH

  It recognizes the strength of social, economic, political and environmental influences on health.
• HOLISTIC HEALTH

  It described health as a unified or multidimensional process involving the wellbeing of whole person in context of his environment.
• TRUE OR FALSE?


  TRUE: Health is multidimensional
• Word Health Organization explained health in three-dimensional perspective: Physical mental, social, and spiritual.
• Besides theses many more may be cited, e.g., emotional, vocational, political, philosophical, cultural, socioeconomic, environmental, educational, nutritional.
• Physical dimension views health form physiological perspective.
• PHYSICAL DIMENSION

  It conceptualizes health that as biologically a state in which each and every organ even a cell is functioning at their optimum capacity and in perfect harmony with the rest of body.
• MENTAL DIMENSION

  Ability to think clearly and coherently. This deals with sound socialization communities.
• Mental health is a state of balance between the individual and the surrounding world, a state of harmony between oneself and others, coexistence between the relatives of the self and that of other people and that of the environment.
• Mental health is not merely an absence of mental illness.
• FEATURES OF MENTALLY HEALTHY PERSON

  • Free from internal conflicts.
  • Well - adjusted in the external environment.
  • Searches for one's identity.
  • Strong sense of self-esteem.
  • Knows himself: his mind, problems and goal
  • Have good self-controls-balances.
• SOCIAL DIMENSION

  It refers the ability to make and maintain relationships with other people or communities.
• SOCIAL DIMENSION

  It states that harmony and integration within and between each individuals and other members of the society.
• SPIRITUAL DIMENSION

  It is intangible "something" that transcends physiology and psychology.
• Spiritual health is connected with religious beliefs and practices. It also deals with personal creeds, principles of behavior and ways of achieving peace of mind and being at peace with oneself.
• SPIRITUAL DIMENSION

  It includes integrity, principle and ethics, the purpose of life, commitment to some higher being, belief in the concepts that are not subject to "state of art" explanation.