Health education in India
How much of importance do we give to get general population educated on their health? Is government of India at all interested in teaching the general populace? Why aren't we getting educated on the weight management? Why aren't we made aware about the healthy eating? India is one of the countries with the largest number of heart patients in the world. Heart Attack is so prevalent in India that I bet everyone in India has been touched by it. If it such a problem, why isn't there a concerted effort to educate the larger populace?
The reason, as one of my friends expressed is in India, Health care is a business, and not a government responsibility. The government is not bothered at all. Pathetic, I would say. But, to give the governmnet credit where is it due, when I was growing up, the message on the TV and movies was 'smoking is bad and one shouldn't smoke'. I am not sure how much governed was behind this anti smoking campaign, but it was done. There is some effort to give some AIDS education on TV and movies, which is laudable.
TV is such a persuasive medium, just slip minute long lessons into these popular soap operas on how to cook healthy food. How eating Ghee soaked Parathas daily is not a good idea and eating your vegetables is important. What's so difficult about this? The ladies of the families see this and cook healthy food and the whole family health improves.
Are we taught healthy living in school? No, I don't remember anything. I was taught SUPW (socially useful productive work) I don't even remember what crap was that. I think its the communist ideology creeping into the schools. We could have been taught about cholesterol, varieties of it, heart attack etc. One child educated would go back and motivate his whole family. Why aren't we doing this?
These two media of TVs and Schools are very doable but why aren't we doing it? 'Cause we don't care, a few lives lost to Heart attack doesn't really matter as we have a Billion of them!
The reason, as one of my friends expressed is in India, Health care is a business, and not a government responsibility. The government is not bothered at all. Pathetic, I would say. But, to give the governmnet credit where is it due, when I was growing up, the message on the TV and movies was 'smoking is bad and one shouldn't smoke'. I am not sure how much governed was behind this anti smoking campaign, but it was done. There is some effort to give some AIDS education on TV and movies, which is laudable.
TV is such a persuasive medium, just slip minute long lessons into these popular soap operas on how to cook healthy food. How eating Ghee soaked Parathas daily is not a good idea and eating your vegetables is important. What's so difficult about this? The ladies of the families see this and cook healthy food and the whole family health improves.
Are we taught healthy living in school? No, I don't remember anything. I was taught SUPW (socially useful productive work) I don't even remember what crap was that. I think its the communist ideology creeping into the schools. We could have been taught about cholesterol, varieties of it, heart attack etc. One child educated would go back and motivate his whole family. Why aren't we doing this?
These two media of TVs and Schools are very doable but why aren't we doing it? 'Cause we don't care, a few lives lost to Heart attack doesn't really matter as we have a Billion of them!
posted by Pavan @ 4:36 PM
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1 Comments:
True!
we really dont care? or somewhere down the line... we dont care to care. there is a small difference in two and this has creeped in due to our past.
what are we tought? at home or even at schools? to keep from dirt.. and when today we see people as dirt we try our level max to maintain a distance. isnt it?
you go to a govt hospitals and would certainly wonder how people are using the facilities... see the indian trains.. and anything ..
we are escalating dirt adn then harp on its remification.... we are DUBIOUS people.... arent we?
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