All about health from Oranyan

Health longevity generally means a long life with good health and living beyond the expected age range.

These days, more people enjoy excellent health and live up to eighty years or even more. This proves that there is a considerable improvement in health care, nutrition and largely the standard of living getting better.

There are countless products in the market claiming that they have aging longevity benefits. You should understand and find out by organized studies about the products that are available in the market and select a proven effective product.

The most popular and publicized method that has anti aging properties is Human Growth Hormone (HGH)injection. This is extracted from the pituitary gland of dead bodies to give treatment for dwarfism. This is highly expensive method; recently DNA technology is used to extract HGH from dead body which is slightly less costly. HGH is the only substance which has proven to be a successful anti aging substance and with which you can increase longevity.

There is also the HGH oral spray and oral supplements. According to Dr. Klatz MD, this process is not aging longevity but is age reversing. Some people who have used this oral spray or supplements also confirm that they could feel the age reversal. A man can lose some fats and gained some muscle mass with this treatment.

Although it is not perfect, HGH oral spray and pills can reduce wrinkles and even reverse a woman’s menopause.

Of course, there are other ways for you to live longer, ie increase your longevity. These include :-

1. Breathing is necessary for you to survive. Breathing is vital for good health and health longevity. A deep, smooth and slow breathing is the key for your life force. Deep breathing makes you relax and also fight the out come of stress. Deep breathing also helps more oxygen to blood, brain and muscles to improve your level of energy and gives you increased longevity. Yoga teaches you breathing exercises for health and aging longevity. Deep breathing before bed time will give a good and sound sleep and helps with your health longevity too.

2. Good sleep is an important factor for health and to increase longevity. A good sleep will be a basic need for your health and aging longevity. Adequate sleep is essential to recharge your body for the next days work. Depending on the extra pressure you have to adjust your sleeping duration.

3. Water is most essential to form good blood, skin and healthy tissues. Every part in the body needs water. For health longevity you have to drink half the weight of your body. Inadequate water can cause health hazards such as dehydration. As you grow older feeling of thirst will reduce so you have to remember to take water frequently, this is sure to give you the most wanted aging longevity. Care should be taken to sip the water in small quantities than gulping more water at a time.

4. You have to develop a good eating habit for health longevity. Eat correct amount of food, neither less nor more to increase your aging longevity. Improper food or poor eating routines seriously damages to health and some times will cause shortening your life span. You have to choose your food and quality of food to suit your health conditions.

5. Exercising is also an important activity for sound health longevity. Exercises reduce stress, strengthen muscles, reduce fats and helps the heart function better. All are vital for increasing your longevity odds.

So there they are, 5 crucial tips to stay healthy and live longer, ie have age and health longevity. Keep these tips handy, you won’t regret it.

Even at the outset, it must be made clear that only businesses with 2-50 employees are eligible for small business health insurance. If you are self-employed and no one else works for you, then you should look into health insurance schemes meant for self-employed individuals.

If you own or a part of a business organization having 2 to 50 employees you will qualify for and benefit from a group health insurance plan. Small business health insurance holds a lot of benefits. Besides providing medical care for business owner and the employees, a small business health insurance plan is designed in a way that the financial risk is spread among all the members resulting in lower premiums and more extensive coverage for everyone in the company.

Further, small business health insurance has certain unique tax benefits. Employer contributions to a small business health insurance plans are 100% exempted from tax and employees will also save on their payroll taxes. As per law, no insurance company in any state can refuse to sell the small business health insurance as long as you meet the state’s minimum requirements concerning the type of organization you are insuring and the number of employees getting covered.

To get a precise quote on a small business health insurance policy, you will have to furnish the right information about the type of coverage you want and the relevant particulars of all the employees who have to be insured, including the number of dependents each one has.

To get a precise online quote for a small business health insurance policy, you will have to furnish the right information about the type of coverage you want and the relevant particulars of all the employees who have to be insured, including the number of dependents each one has. Please bear in mind that the accuracy of the online quote you get will largely depend on the correctness of information you provide.

Before obtaining an online quote, it is advisable to visit eHealthInsurance, the web’s largest health insurance marketplace. For small businesses, eHealthInsurance will offer instant online quotes. As soon as you enter all the basic information about your company and your employees, online quotes — customized for your company — will be immediately generated for you. You will be able to know the amount each individual employee will be required to pay toward his or her health insurance coverage, as well as the company’s contribution to each employee’s coverage.

Several health care companies present their small business clients with a portfolio of options. Within the portfolio is an assortment of policy choices regarding how the employer contributes, and what plan options the employee will have. The employees decide what sort of plan they would like to have and what they can afford. The health plans range from a standard HMO to comprehensive PPO coverage.

Either reducing coverage or asking the employees to contribute more to the plan is the obvious step to reducing small business health insurance costs. But this attitude of the employer will prove unpopular with workers. Small business health insurance may take a huge chunk out of business revenue, but insurance benefits will attract better employees and also help retain talented and skilled workers. Satisfied, healthy employees are more likely to help your business grow.

Health insurance is a well spread out business, so seeking online quotes from different providers could reduce the small business health insurance costs. Start by searching the Internet and also ask other owners of small businesses what they pay for health insurance.

Health and beauty are should always go parallel to each other and that is, you cannot possess just one of the two isolation. Indeed a healthy individual is naturally beautiful and the reverse is also true. Health is the metabolic capacity in all people and beauty develops joy to the beholder. Below are some health and beauty idea that are just easy to implement.

First, for a healthy body, you must consider regular exercise and thus you have to find ways to move your body. You should always make it a point to use the stairs rather than elevators or escalators unless you have to go for time. If you are overweight, eat the appropriate amount to lessen your weight or exercise more to have a youthful body.

It is very essential to keep diabetes under control if one is diabetic or even take preventive protocol to lessen the onset of diabetes and the risk of coronary heart disease, stroke, hyper tension, and cancer or lung disease. Sedentary lifestyle is the greatest bane of beauty and health. It is imperative to regularly exercise your body. If possible, 30 minutes a day, 5 or 6 days a week. Get connected of doing anything that moves your limbs.

Exercise is not only a beauty and fitness tool, but a stress reliever as well. You can move around in small interval of time. It will be absolutely far more rewarding if you could allocate 45 minutes to 1 hour for any physical activity.

The next of the tips is to strive to limit or avoid fried foods, burgers and other fatty meats. Lessen the cheese consumption, butter, nuts, sauces etc. Drinking plenty water is one of the best beauty and health tips you can all follow. Water is substantial for virtually every function of the body. The average person needs 1 to 3 liters of water in a day.

The most important of the beauty and health tips is to stop smoking- if you are in it. It is mandatory to be a non smoker in order to elevate the overall beauty and health of the individual.

Try to lessen stress-filled situations. Allocate 30 minutes a day doing something you get yourself enjoyed. Make your temper under check and count to ten before losing your temper or getting aggravated. Avoid staying with people whom you find hard to cope with. It is also of great significance to practice oral hygiene and stay in a pollution free surroundings to maintain beauty, health.

Recent studies indicates that a glass of wine or one drink a day is good for the heart, but take it easy! Do not drink too much. Too much drinking of alcohol can cause health problems such as liver and kidney disease as well as cancer.

There are various health and beauty products available in the marketplace right now. They are brought with various promises, guarantees and offers. Think for a while before purchasing. Gather the details of the products you want to buy. You should see to it that the product will do better for your beauty and health which you are looking for in it. Health and beauty products and services do help to augment health and fitness.

MAJOR HEALTH PROBLEMS OF ORISSA

 

By Dr Nihar Ranjan Ray

  

Orissa is a high focus state for its culture, heritage, rich with minerals and diseases as well. It has rated as one of the measurable state so far the health care is concerned. Badly affected by the poverty, illiteracy, natural disasters Orissa registered very poor health indicators as per the WHO reports. Its state with a population of 3. 68 crores, comprising of 85% rural habitants, with 22% Scheduled Tribe and 16. 5% Scheduled Caste population. From a lot of health issues I need to focus the following topics with bird vision felling their importance and seriousness.

 

 Infant mortality

Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) is only 53 per 1,000 live births in urban areas as compared to 76 in rural areas, only 26. 4 per cent of tribal children are immunized when compared to 43. 7 per cent among the general population in the State and anemia is very high of 61. 2 per cent among women.

The State needed to arrest the malnutrition trend as early as possible. “The level of malnutrition in the State is quite high. Over 30 per cent of children are severely malnourished. As per the latest survey, 40. 7 per cent under age of 3 are underweight, 45 per cent are stunted and 19. 5 per cent are wasted. About 65 per cent of children aged between 6 and 35 months are anemic.

Maternal mortality rate

One woman dies every seven minutes from complications related to pregnancy and child birth in India and in Orissa nine women die everyday for the same reasons.

The MMR in the state has come down from 367 per one lac (100,000) child births in 1993 to 358 deaths per one lac births in 2003 which is a very negligible drop. In fact there has not been any significant reduction in the rate of maternal deaths in the last few years and this is a worrying factor, said participants at the “Know Your Entitlements” organized here to coincide with the National Safe Motherhood Day.

The White Ribbon Alliance-Orissa in collaboration with Department of Health and Family Welfare, government of Orissa, Unicef and UNFPA organized the workshop.

With a view to curb this problem by minimizing maternal death rate, the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood unites individuals, organizations and communities who are committed towards increasing public awareness on this issue and promote Safe Motherhood.

This year, the Central government declared, “Know your Entitlement” as the theme of the National Safe Motherhood Day. The objective was to generate awareness amongst women and family members on their entitlements under various schemes and policies taken up by the government.

Several NGO’s working in the health sector across the state including the Nehru Yuva Kendra which has trained 12,000 youths for the purpose participated in the workshop here today.

Flood ravaged Orissa

Floods cause health problems in Orissa: Oxfam India has warned that 8. 5 million people affected by July’s floods are facing serious health threats. 78 870 cases of diarrhoea have occurred, resulting in 41 deaths; 124 cases of jaundice were reported, with two deaths. 300 people have been bitten by snakes, leading to 22 deaths.

Malaria

Malaria is the foremost public health problem of Orissa contributing 23% of malaria cases, 40% of Plasmodium falciparum cases and 50% of malaria deaths in the country. The tribal population are badly affected by the  Malaria. More than 60% of tribal population of Orissa live in highrisk areas for malaria. Though the tribal communities constitute nearly 8% of the total population of the country, they contribute 25% of the total malaria cases and 15% of total P. falciparum cases. Various epidemiological studies and malariometric surveys carried out in tribal population including primitive tribes reveal a high transmission of P. falciparum in the forest regions of India, because malaria control in such settlements has always been unattainable due to technical and operational problems. In a specific

study conducted in undivided Koraput district, it was observed that the district is endemic for malaria and is hyperendemic in top hills where Bondo primitive tribes are residing.

 

Diarrhoeal Disorders

Water-borne communicable diseases like gastrointestinal disorders including acute diarrhoea are responsible for a higher morbidity and mortality due to

poor sanitation, unhygienic conditions and lack of safe drinking water in the tribal areas of the country. In a cross sectional study conducted by RMRC, Bhubaneswar in 4 primitive tribes of Orissa, the diarrhoeal diseases including cholera was found to occur throughout the year attaining its peak during the rainy season . Generally the infants ,preschool children and adolescent groups are mostly affected.

 

Micronutrient Deficiency

Orissa is very much infamous for starvation death cases. Micronutrient deficiency is closely linked with nutritional disorders and diarrhoea. Deficiency of essential dietary components leads to malnutrition, protein calorie deficiency and micronutrient deficiencies (like vit A, iron and iodine deficiency). Vitamin A deficiency in the form of Bitot’s spot, conjunctival xerosis and night blindness was observed

 

Skin Infection

Skin problems like scabies is a major health problem amongst the rural population of orissa and the problem is much worse in the primitive tribes because of overcrowding and unhygienic living conditions as also close contacts and lack of health awareness. In a study conducted by the RMRC, Bhubaneswar.

 

Intestnal Paracitism

Intestinal protozoan and helminthic infestations are the major public health problems and were observed in Most of these infections are due to indiscriminate defecation in the open field, bare foot walking and lack of health awareness and hygiene. The problem enhances in the rainy season. These are preventable with repeated administration of anti-helminthic and protozoal treatment at 4 months interval which can be used effectively in national parasitic infection control program.

 

 

 

HEALTH INDICATORS OF ORISSA

             The Total Fertility Rate of the State is 2. 6. The Infant Mortality Rate is 73 and Maternal Mortality Ratio is 358 (SRS 2001 – 03) which are higher than the National average. The Sex Ratio in the State is 972 (as compared to 933 for the country). Comparative figures of major health and demographic indicators are as follows: 

Table I: Demographic, Socio-economic and Health profile of Orissa State as compared to India figures 

S. No.

Item

Orissa

India

1

Total population (Census 2001) (in million)

36. 80

1028. 61

2

Decadal Growth (Census 2001) (%)

16. 25

21. 54

3

Crude Birth Rate (SRS 2007)

21. 9

23. 5

4

Crude Death Rate (SRS 2007)

9. 3

7. 5

5

Total Fertility Rate (SRS 2006)

2. 6

2. 9

6

Infant Mortality Rate (SRS 2007)

73

57

7

Maternal Mortality Ratio (SRS 2001 – 2003)

358

301

8

Sex Ratio (Census 2001)

972

933

9

Population below Poverty line (%)

47. 15

26. 10

10

Schedule Caste population (in million)

6. 08

166. 64

11

Schedule Tribe population (in million)

8. 15

84. 33

12

Female Literacy Rate (Census 2001) (%)

50. 5

53. 7

 

 

 Table II: Health Infrastructure of Orissa 

Particulars

Required

In position

shortfall

Sub-centre

7283

5927

1356

Primary Health Centre

1171

1279

-

Community Health Centre

292

231

61

Multipurpose worker (Female)/ANM at Sub Centres & PHCs

7206

6768

438

Health Worker (Male) MPW(M) at Sub Centres

5927

3392

2535

Health Assistant (Female)/LHV at PHCs

1279

726

553

Health Assistant (Male) at PHCs

1279

168

1111

Doctor at PHCs

1279

1353

-

Obstetricians & Gynaecologists at CHCs

231

NA

NA

Physicians at CHCs

231

NA

NA

Paediatricians at CHCs

231

NA

NA

Total specialists at CHCs

924

NA

NA

Radiographers

231

8

223

Pharmacist

1510

1984

-

Laboratory Technicians

1510

311

1199

Nurse/Midwife

2896

637

2259

(Source: RHS Bulletin, March 2007, M/O Health & F. W. , GOI) 

Health Institution

Number

Medical College

4

District Hospitals

32

Referral Hospitals

 

City Family Welfare Centre

 

Rural Dispensaries

 

Ayurvedic Hospitals

8

Ayurvedic Dispensaries

624

Unani Hospitals

-

Unani Dispensaries

9

Homeopathic Hospitals

-

Homeopathic Dispensary

603

  

  

  

  

  

Conclusion

     Despite the above said problems we have to make our stands strong to fight against the disease, poverty, illiteracy and natural as well as the man made disasters(Naxlite problem). Now under the able leadership of Mr Naveen Pattnaik Orissa has registered record foreign investment as well as an appreciable economical growth. Now it is time to flex our muscles and brain to expedite our development in health care system. Orissa is doing well in the influence of NRHM . Orissa has many a miles to go to improve its health indicators that needs a lot of patience, composure and brain storming.

                             

                                                                       Dr. Nihar Ranjan Ray

                                                                       Dt. 29th july 2008