HEALTH TOPICS 1

Main aspects
- traditional vs modern medicine
traditional medicine " the health practice, approaches, knowledge and beliefs incorporating plant animal and mineral based medicines, spiritual therapies, manual techniques and exercises, applied singularly or in combination to treat, diagnose and prevent illnesses or maintain well-being"
+ traditional Chinese medicine
+ herbal medicine
+ acupuncture (cham cuu)
+ homoeopathy
Countries in Africa, Asia and Latin American use TM to help meet some of their primary health care needs. For example, in Africa, up to 80% of the population uses traditional medicine for primary health care.
its use is spreading in popularity in industrialized countries. For instance, US recorded 158 million adults use complementary medicine (a field which incorporates traditional medicine but is broader in scope)
- HIV/AIDS
Almost 39 million people around the world are living with HIV – slightly more than the population of Poland. Nearly two-thirds of them live in Sub-Saharan Africa. The global HIV/Aids epidemic killed 2.8 million people in 2005. But there was evidence that the number of new cases had stabilised for the first time in 25 years.
- diet and nutrition






- exercise & healthy lifestyle
An healthy lifestyle is a measure of the totality of your existence. It incorporates your physical well being (food, exercise, rest, etc), your spiritual well being (religiosity, reflection, meditation, music, arts, humility), and your emotional (love, family, friends, commitment, fulfillment) wellbeing.
Overall, an healthy lifestyle is achieved through balance and moderation of the totality of your existence.
- mental health/ happiness
- smoking & passive smoking
- hygiene & sanitation
- road safety & driver education
- pollution of environment
- health awareness education