Health

Health

Health refers to a state of physical, social, and mental well-being. Physical well-being entails the bodily functions utilized in routine operations such as walking, working, and other physical activity. Physical well-being is achieved through proper nutrition, exercise, adequate rest, and disease prevention. Mental well-being entails social, psychological, and emotional well-being and freedom from mental disorders such as anxiety and depression.

Good health is achieved and maintained by engagement in healthy behaviors. Such healthy behaviors include proper nutrition, injury and violence prevention, immunization, and cessation of tobacco and alcohol use, among others. These behaviors can be modified to minimize disease occurrence. Workplaces and the community are better poised to facilitate the ability of an individual to engage in healthy behaviors, as described below.

Workplaces can provide room and space in terms of time and infrastructure that enable their employees to exercise regularly. Exercise has been linked to physical well-being and the prevention of lifestyle diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. Regular exercise also prevents obesity, which may, in turn, predispose an individual to these lifestyle diseases (Shepherd et al., 2017). Workplaces can also offer a suitable environment for educating individuals on the modifiable risks of infections. Behaviors like tobacco and alcohol abuse have been linked to several disorders (Bush et al., 2016). As a primary meeting point for employees, the workplace can be utilized for their education on the risks these behaviors pose to their health and the importance of avoiding such habits. Community and workplaces also serve as sources of social support to various individuals. Workplaces build solid social support that can be particularly beneficial in maintaining mental well-being (McCanlies et al., 2018). The availability of people who can listen to an individual and see them through their workplace problems makes it a critical determinant of good health.

 References

Bush, T., Lovejoy, J., Deprey, M., & Carpenter, K. (2016). The effect of tobacco cessation on weight gain, obesity, and diabetes risk. Obesity, 24(9), 1834-1841. https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.21582

McCanlies, E., Gu, J., Andrew, M., & Violanti, J. (2018). The effect of social support, gratitude, resilience, and satisfaction with life on depressive symptoms among police officers following Hurricane Katrina. International Journal Of Social Psychiatry, 64(1), 63-72. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020764017746197

Shepherd, E., Gomersall, J., Tieu, J., Han, S., Crowther, C., & Middleton, P. (2017). Combined diet and exercise interventions for preventing gestational diabetes mellitus. Cochrane Database Of Systematic Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.cd010443.pub3

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Health

What does the term ‘health’ mean to you? How does your community and or place of work facilitate your ability to engage in healthy behaviors and, therefore, alter modifiable risk factors for diseases? Discuss three examples. The student should compare and contrast resources and responses pre and post-COVID-19.