| hcare is not only about health insurance. Health care | | | | complications of other diseases and illnesses |
| literally means how one cares for health. The best | | | | associated. |
| health insurance is the knowledge a person can | | | | By promoting healthy behavior, health care |
| acquire about personal health. This kind of health | | | | professionals can also reduce the need of people |
| insurance is affordable for everyone and accessible | | | | taking costly medications. All people require is the |
| everyday. Care for Your health by learning about it. | | | | implementation of simple lifestyle changes, and their |
| This is the best insurance for Your health. It does not | | | | chances for developing serious health problems |
| cost money. | | | | diminish greatly. |
| Staying healthy is very important for everyone. More | | | | By not smoking, consuming less alcohol, eating |
| and more people are now recognizing the need to be | | | | healthy, and by working out people can actually |
| concerned about their health. You health is your most | | | | improve the quality of their lives and their health. By |
| important asset. Health care education at the | | | | promoting these basic core health care values and by |
| moment is only meant for people who want to | | | | educating the masses, people can actually learn to |
| become physicians, pharmacists, nurses, medical | | | | take better care, not only of themselves but others |
| technologists, or related health care professionals. | | | | as well. |
| Healthcare education is thus basically a specialized | | | | Encouragement should be given on individual, family |
| subject you can choose at college or university level. | | | | and group levels, so that the general public can |
| This is fine; healthcare needs to be a specialized | | | | better take care of their own physical, mental and |
| subject for professionals only, but primary health care | | | | emotional health. |
| should also be promoted among the masses. Today | | | | Healthcare is not a business, but a service. And |
| healthcare has become a complex issue with many | | | | healthcare education should be provided at the basic |
| hurdles and hindrances. | | | | grassroots levels to ensure a much healthier general |
| Every day new diseases and illness and their related | | | | public. Thereby, also reduced the rising costs of |
| complications are being discovered. People need to | | | | health care. |
| learn how to take better care of themselves and | | | | The importance of any health care education cannot |
| their loved ones and stay safe and healthy. By | | | | be underestimated, as we need health care |
| primary health care we mean basic health care. | | | | professionals to keep us well; be it a doctor, lab |
| People need to learn that by eating right, becoming | | | | technician, pharmacist or even nurse. Each of these |
| physically active and going for regular medical check | | | | professionals have their own unique skill and function. |
| ups as they grow older, they can keep most harmful | | | | What a doctor can do, no nurse can, and what a |
| diseases and conditions away. | | | | pharmacist can do, no technician can. There are a |
| Avoiding alcohol and not smoking also improves a | | | | whole host of health care professionals, some we |
| person’s quality of life. By simply following | | | | know and some who work behind the scenes to |
| these basics most people can stay healthy. Most | | | | make keep us healthy and well. From lab technologist, |
| conditions like heart disease, kidney and liver | | | | radiographer, and MRI technologist to nurses, |
| problems, and diabetes are all caused by an unhealthy | | | | respiratory therapists, BME technicians, doctors and |
| lifestyle, being obese and living a sedentary existence. | | | | pharmacists, all these professionals play a vital role in |
| Health education needs to be promoted at the | | | | our safety and well-being. |
| primary school level, by teaching kids how to stay | | | | Health care education is very vital, as our health |
| safe and healthy. School is the best place to teach | | | | depends on the skill and accuracy of each of these |
| children as they can then further influence their | | | | individuals. Healthcare professionals are healers, |
| parents and siblings as well. In the U.S., high school | | | | caregivers, motivators, and teachers, and their |
| drop outs are a common phenomenon, however | | | | importance lies in the fact that without them, we |
| completing a primary school education is a must for | | | | would not be able to diagnose, treat or take proper |
| all. | | | | care of ourselves. |
| Health care practitioners can better reach the general | | | | However also equally important is the need for |
| public, by teaching primary school children the | | | | regular people to be better educated about taking |
| benefits of a healthier lifestyle. By teaching kids the | | | | care of each other. Lay people need to be educated |
| basics they can better understand how to take care | | | | about the various diseases and illness out there that |
| of themselves and their families. | | | | can endanger their lives. This way they can look |
| Health education should also be provided across all | | | | after their own health and not totally rely on a |
| segments of society so that everyone both rich and | | | | doctor. |
| poor can have the right to a healthy life. Staying | | | | The importance of healthcare education for the |
| healthy should not be an exclusive for some. By | | | | masses cannot be stressed on enough. The general |
| promoting healthcare education to the masses at | | | | public needs to be better educated and informed |
| primary school levels, more people can come | | | | about their own health. This is an important issue that |
| understand the necessity of regular doctor’s | | | | needs to be addressed and soon. People need to |
| visits and taking better care of their health. | | | | understand that their health care is in their own |
| Quality health care is the right of each and every | | | | hands. They have to take care of themselves, not |
| individual. Presently in the U.S. the health-care system | | | | the doctor. The message that needs to be spread is |
| is incapable of meeting the present, let alone the | | | | that health care education should now be promoted |
| future needs of the public. | | | | among school goings kids, so that children while |
| By educating the masses about personal health care | | | | growing up can learn how to look after themselves |
| a lot of preventable disease can actually be | | | | and can pass on this message to their families and |
| prevented without people having to visit the doctor | | | | friends. |
| and experiment with new and expensive treatments | | | | Society needs to realize that the numbers of patients |
| and medication. | | | | far outweigh the number of doctors available, and |
| The masses need to be taught how to better look | | | | people need to look after their own health. By |
| after themselves through, community programs at | | | | introducing and endorsing health care to the public at |
| town halls or at the primary school level, by qualified | | | | all levels, from school programs to community |
| healthcare professionals. | | | | programs, the importance of health care can be |
| This way they themselves can prevent the onset of | | | | better emphasized and the need to look after ones |
| dangerous diseases such as heart disease, | | | | self can be better illustrated. More needs to be done |
| hypertension, high cholesterol, kidney problems, | | | | to improve the field of health care education so that |
| obesity, and diabetes; and reduce the incidence and | | | | the nation in general can live a much healthier life. |