Question

What is the significance of health?

Answer 1

Significance of health

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well being.

For a healthy life cycle, person needs to have a balanced diet, has to take exercise, lives in proper shelter, takes enough sleep, have good hygiene.

1) The health of all organism will depend on their surrounding or their environment. Our social environment is an important factor in our individual health.

2) Public cleanliness is important for individual health (If no agency is ensuring that garbage is collected and disposed, if no one take responsibility of clearing the drains, if there are heap of garbage and thrash

littered here and there, if there is open-drain water lying stagnant around, the possibility of poor health

increase)

3) We need food for health and food will to earn by doing work. For this, opportunity to do work has to be available. Good economic condition and jobs are therefore needed for individual health.

4) We need to be happy in order to be truly healthy. If we mistreat each other and are afraid of each other, we cannot be healthy or happy. Social equality and harmony are important for individual health.