promoting health and well-being

                  You should also be aware that ideas about health and well-being changeover time and vary between different cultures. Health and well-being differs over time and between cultures because people have different rules and regulations where they come from. The way they will treat people is more likely to be different from each other because their culture might have limits of the way the have to interact with others and this can limit the rate of health and well-being to some other people. It might not affect people from the same culture because they are used to the way they treat each other but a person who is not used to the way the culture works might find things a little worrying. The world health organisation takes a more positive view when it is describing health. It describes health as the state of complete physical mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity this is the description given to health and well-being by “WHO” in the year 1946 and it is still in consideration by people. This is a very general definition because a person’s health can change from day to day and time to time. Our basic needs do not change as we go through different stages of life but, different people do need different kind of supports, depending on their particular situation or life stage.

There are four aspects of health and well-being. There are the physical, intellectual, emotional and social aspects.

• Physical needs are all the needs we have to keep our bodies working as well as they can. A man’s needs are of the utmost importance because physical life must be sustained first.  Even though everyone’s body is unique, there are certain physical needs we all have. The most important physical needs include food, water, protection, oxygen, clothing, rest, exercise and personal hygiene. There is also a specific method through which each of these need is taken care of:
• We must eat to satisfy our need for food;
• We must drink to satisfy our need for water;
• We must breathe to satisfy our need for oxygen;
• We must sleep to satisfy our need for rest;
• We must have shelter to satisfy our need for protection.

• Intellectual needs are all the needs we have which develop and keep our brains working as well as possible. They include mental stimulation, education and employment. If we do not have enough to keep our minds active, we become bored sometimes boring and fed up. Mental stimulation- this is basically the activities we do that keep our brains working. Different people might have different things that keep their brains stimulated. For example: children will have different things that they do to keep them mentally stimulated and adults will also have things that keep them mentally stimulated and so do teenagers. All the things differ from age groups. We need stimulation mentally because it helps us to be able to learn new things and develop in the process of learning the new things.

• Emotional needs are those that feel happy and relaxed. Such as love, respect and secure ness. We need to be able to feel express and recognise different emotions in order to cope with different situations that arise in life.

 In various degrees, each according to his or her unique nature, we each have a natural emotional need to feel. We have to feel:

• Social needs are those that enable us to build and enjoy good relationships and friendships. This includes opportunities to mix with others and an appropriate environment and interested in activities with others. Your sociality also depends on how you communicate with others like relatives and friends. Every body have their own way in which they socialise with other people because each and every one of us have different characters although there might be some needs that we all need the same it doesn’t mean we are of the same behaviour humans needs are the powerful source of explanation of human behaviour and social interaction. All individuals have needs that they strive to safety.