Reading articles on health issues may inspire you to initiate a healthier lifestyle, a priority in a life so precious to you. Do not wait till your car breaks down on the road-side and make your family push it to the closest garage. Check and replace parts at the scheduled times, to run the vehicle smoothly.
Likewise, apply the same principles to your life. Get regular check-ups and make your life run smoothly.
This is easier said than done, but it is not practical to stay fit in developing countries due to day-to-day livelihood problems. In the more affluent first world countries, ‘medicare’, and universal schemes are established for people to have their medical check-ups carried out annually, even when healthy, at no cost to the individual, when requested by respective medical practitioners. These health schemes cost immensely in socialized countries, but through taxes and other ways lawmakers can stabilize their budgets.
Through such early investigatory procedures, you could take precautionary actions to prevent diseases prophylactically and improve wellbeing and life expectancy.
Sri Lanka can boast a wonderful health system, rendering free services in government hospitals, and on the contrary, costing exorbitantly such services in the private hospital system. In spite of such medical facilities available, people do not seem to care to check on their health situations routinely before illnesses brew up. Some private companies have agreements with private hospitals to provide annual check-ups on their staff, but this facility is few and far between.
Another factor is the cost of such preliminary investigations in the private sector. Naturally, one would wait till one breaks down and then pay exorbitant fees for hospitalization, investigations, and doctors’ visits among other expenses. Some average wage earners even mortgage their properties to pay such health bills. In some situations, the President’s Fund subsidizes, for instance heart surgery and other life threatening health conditions. Establishment of such funds benefits those who cannot pay health bills, alleviates poverty and is not available in most developing countries.
People should be made aware through the mass media and other sources, by health experts, on health issues and non-communicable diseases and their prevention. Unfortunately, this is not happening adequately, maybe due to costs involved in such planning
There are hardly any books and magazines on general health issues published locally, available in bookshops and other outlets in Sri Lanka. Most books and magazines available are mainly cultural, historical, medical text, and science text books, among others. Lifestyle health magazines are not available as in most advanced countries, where one could purchase at the railway stations, airports and other public places.
More doctors and health personal in Sri Lanka need to focus on publishing health material, in all three spoken languages. Those who are not proficient in English are more handicapped, because most books and magazines on health subjects are difficult to be translated and time consuming, to elaborate the same knowledge and interpretations.
Diet Issues
It is most disheartening to see the change of eating patterns in Sri Lanka over the years. In bye-gone days when the economy was more stable, and with better job satisfaction, people had opportunities to have home-cooked, wholesome meals, (meaning rice and other healthy curries with high fiber balancing the nutritional requirements, for both lunch and dinner). Young ones are often seen enjoying American hot foods til late in the night. What all this means, is that people are eating more unwholesome but tasty gourmet, pleasure-loving foods, full of saturated fats, carbohydrates and salt with low fiber.
These high calorie diets have been proved to cause obesity, heart diseases, diabetes, hypertensions, and so on.
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Likewise, apply the same principles to your life. Get regular check-ups and make your life run smoothly.
This is easier said than done, but it is not practical to stay fit in developing countries due to day-to-day livelihood problems. In the more affluent first world countries, ‘medicare’, and universal schemes are established for people to have their medical check-ups carried out annually, even when healthy, at no cost to the individual, when requested by respective medical practitioners. These health schemes cost immensely in socialized countries, but through taxes and other ways lawmakers can stabilize their budgets.
Through such early investigatory procedures, you could take precautionary actions to prevent diseases prophylactically and improve wellbeing and life expectancy.
Sri Lanka can boast a wonderful health system, rendering free services in government hospitals, and on the contrary, costing exorbitantly such services in the private hospital system. In spite of such medical facilities available, people do not seem to care to check on their health situations routinely before illnesses brew up. Some private companies have agreements with private hospitals to provide annual check-ups on their staff, but this facility is few and far between.
Another factor is the cost of such preliminary investigations in the private sector. Naturally, one would wait till one breaks down and then pay exorbitant fees for hospitalization, investigations, and doctors’ visits among other expenses. Some average wage earners even mortgage their properties to pay such health bills. In some situations, the President’s Fund subsidizes, for instance heart surgery and other life threatening health conditions. Establishment of such funds benefits those who cannot pay health bills, alleviates poverty and is not available in most developing countries.
People should be made aware through the mass media and other sources, by health experts, on health issues and non-communicable diseases and their prevention. Unfortunately, this is not happening adequately, maybe due to costs involved in such planning
There are hardly any books and magazines on general health issues published locally, available in bookshops and other outlets in Sri Lanka. Most books and magazines available are mainly cultural, historical, medical text, and science text books, among others. Lifestyle health magazines are not available as in most advanced countries, where one could purchase at the railway stations, airports and other public places.
More doctors and health personal in Sri Lanka need to focus on publishing health material, in all three spoken languages. Those who are not proficient in English are more handicapped, because most books and magazines on health subjects are difficult to be translated and time consuming, to elaborate the same knowledge and interpretations.
Diet Issues
It is most disheartening to see the change of eating patterns in Sri Lanka over the years. In bye-gone days when the economy was more stable, and with better job satisfaction, people had opportunities to have home-cooked, wholesome meals, (meaning rice and other healthy curries with high fiber balancing the nutritional requirements, for both lunch and dinner). Young ones are often seen enjoying American hot foods til late in the night. What all this means, is that people are eating more unwholesome but tasty gourmet, pleasure-loving foods, full of saturated fats, carbohydrates and salt with low fiber.
These high calorie diets have been proved to cause obesity, heart diseases, diabetes, hypertensions, and so on.
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