Health, Sanitation & Nutrition

Identifying the Causes Behind the Stigma about Indian Families for the Practice of Psychologists and Psychiatrists Stigma related to mental health as well as the lack of willingness among Indian families towards consulting psychologists and psychiatrists is the result of interlinked cultural, social, and historical factors:

Cultural and Social Factors: Mental illness is always a social humiliation, a disgrace, that is branded with a sign of awkwardness. Sometimes they attribute it to a consciousness that flows from a satanic boiling up or due to the rebound effect of one’s ill deeds.

-Family Shame: Currently, mental health treatment is considered a stigma by the family members.

-Cultural Taboos: Mostly, people find it culturally wrong to talk about their mental health hence the general trend is to keep quiet about it. Ignorance of mental health conditions and its treatment options are also among the misconceptions and fears that are responsible for this case.

Religious Beliefs: Some religions may cultural or traditional explanations of mental health as occasions of divine interferences or disturbances, which would see some individuals running to their pastors for cure instead of professionals.

Historical Factors:

Colonial Legacy: The extended colonial rule also brought in the western systems in the treatment of physical ailment but the mental illness was considered as imprisonment and enslavement.

Traditional Healing Practices: Allopathic treatment of mental health issues may be rejected in favor of traditional treatments, which are popular in India and many other countries. Practical Issues:

Accessibility: It is not enough mental health professionals, and where there is the scarcity of mental health professionals is in the rural areas where people cannot afford care.

Cost: The cost of therapy and medication is too high and so beyond the reach of most families for it to be implemented.

Language Barrier: The following paper aims to argue that incompetent communication between patients and mental health professionals is as a result of language.

Medication and Life Skills Programs Relevant to Addressing Malnutrition: Focussing on Daniel McLaren’s Context
This means that by investing in agriculture, the government and other bodies may:
Promote and develop sustainable agriculture and crop diversification, as well as support irrigation services.
Bring additional resources to the health systems through availability of healthcare including ante-natal, and post-natal care thus helping children grow and develop adequately and timely.
Incorporate food security and nutrition components in social protection mechanisms through conditional cash transfers.
-This will include education and awareness on nutrition and nutrition awareness generattion, where the society is helped to make the right choices in food.
-There needs to be global sharing of ways and means of combating malnutrition – sharing of ways and means that have worked in other countries.
-Assist in mitigating the adverse impacts of climate change, especially with regard to agriculture and food supply so as to ensure that people are well nourished in the future.

These have to be focused on. If these factors are attended to, governments and other organizations will find a way toward a future that will be free of malnutrition.

Cities are urban regions which harbor large volumes of economic, social, and political interactions. They tend to be the zones of productivity and creativity. However, a large volume of people within a narrow area poses threats to the potential outbreak of diseases. For this reason, urban planning and the construction of infrastructure facilities have proved crucial in prevention from the spread of infectious diseases.

Some of the critical ones include are:

1. Improved Sanitation Infrastructure: – There should be proper sewage disposal systems and sewage plants and proper storm water drainage systems to avoid the risk of water-borne diseases. – Proper collection, transport, and disposal of the solid wastes will help eliminate or at least minimize the chances of vector-borne diseases. – In the presence of a barrier of disease-causing organisms, a safe supply of water is an essential factor in health.

2. Urban Planning and Zoning: – In regulating the density and the zoning of certain parts of the city, it helps in reducing incidences of population explosions that lead to settlement patterns known as slums, which are unhygienic and prone to diseases. – The idea of provision of open spaces in the urban planning is yet another factor which relaxes the minds of city dwellers by enhancing the fresh air available to them and improvement of their mental health as well.

3. Public Health Infrastructure: Health Facility: Ensuring an adequate number of hospitals and clinics for diagnosing, treating, and controlling diseases. Health Education and Promotion : Health promotion activities can improve practice of hygiene, uptake of vaccines, and awareness on diseases control.

4. Community Participation: Community Involvement- it means that the community is involved in present issues and has a say in certain decisions made.

5. Social Mobilization: Improves outcome levels through community participation and population involvement in sanitation and hygiene activities.

These will then see healthier livable cities, less suffering from infectious diseases among urban dwellers thereby raising the general standard of living of such individuals.

Political Commitment: The Government of India has always remained steadfastly devoted to the programme of eradication of Vaccine-Preventable-Polio, covering large segments of its population and prioritizing polio eradication as one of the national health objectives. This has also because, in the event of any such instance, a very strong surveillance system has been put in place to identify and effectively tackle any challenges within the region, very efficiently. Low dose polio vaccines were used in extensive house to house and outreach vaccination campaigns to immunize millions of children. Trust building and high immunization coverage are also possible through social mobilization and communication carried out by the community. Funding and specialized support was accessed from external health funding agencies like the World Health Organization and UNICEF.

The success story of polio eradication in India presents positive sides to interventions in global health projects. It is a case in point emphasizing that public health objectives are only attainable with the appropriate leadership, health system and community involvement. These lessons will be crucial when it comes to the message in regard to the increase of acceptable technologies towards the attempts of reducing diseases such as measles and rubella.

The current geopolitical climate has benevolently congratulated the modern vision of health: for its relevance to promote primary health care and develop disease prevention mechanisms to meet future health threats.

Certainly, there might be an underlying notion proposing that the excessive use of technology is simply to tackle the recent surge in psychological problems. In this perspective, some people abuse technology with honor, fit event, instance, in which they worry, become depressed, feel alone, and seek to escape or deaden their pangs through technology.

However, the ongoing activity of providing oneself with information from electronic gadgets does not only create a diversion from the present predicament, but also worsens the predicament with time.

To mitigate such problems a comprehensive approach must be adopted to tackle substance abuse. This includes acknowledging and combating technology addiction and addressing other mental health concerns such as:

1. Professional Help: Different forms of therapy or counseling will assist to identify what does not work and what, in the opinion of the individual, triggers emotional disturbances nd grief.

2. Mindfulness and Meditation: Mindfulness and meditation will enable individuals to outwardly express themselves regarding the types of thoughts that come to their minds, how to eliminate anxiety, and how to handle stress.

3. Digital Detoxing: The act of regularly putting distance with electronic devices is intended to allow a person connect with their inner being and to reduce the addiction of staring at the blistering screens.

4. Healthy Habits: Primary changes in the mental wellness are enhanced through physical exercises, healthy nutrition as well as adequate rest.

5. Social Connection: Fostering bonds with loved ones, such as friends and family, helps find comfort and reduces the sensation of being alone.

In order to address technology addiction and promote a higher form of wellness, it is essential to address the mentally induced factors of the illness; And foster new healthier mechanisms to deal with these urges.