Health

A CRITICISM OF THE DEFINITION OF HEALTH AS PRESENTED BY THE W.H.O.

Health has been a concept so many individuals,groups and organizations have struggled to give a suitable definition too,
there have been series of dispute and argument as regards which definition is the most apt, however moot most people have found the definitions of others quite incomplete or inadequate,the most general and universally accepted
definition was the one proposed by the WHO.The definition has been subjected to scrutiny by various critics and other rival
organizations, who saw it fit to point out the flaws in the definition.
What then is this definition that has caused soo much argument between the demography of well learned individuals:The WHO
defined health as A state of complete physical,mental and social well being and not merely the absence of diseases and
infirmity.
At first sight one would be beguiled by the definition as to the point of been oblivious of the very errs within the very capsule of
its meaning.Lets take for a start, the aspect of physical well being.Considering the world demography today one would observe that
quite a percentage of it is either maimed in one way or the other, lets rivet our attention to the definition once again and note this:"
complete physical....well being" now, before one can assert that an individual is in a state of complete physical well being,it would
mean that such an individual has every part of his physical being functioning to a hundred percent effectiveness. Then, do we infer that
the physically challenged are not healthy? the fact that an individual is blind, or has a limb or an arm, does not make him any less healthier
than a person who is physically whole.Now let us imagine a society free of the physically challenged, then we would talk about individual
potential under the context of physical well being.To say that someone who is not physically challenged has a complete physical well beign is
to say that the person's potential capacity and physical fitness are efficiently maximized, and this is however not possible because inequality
abounds in the individual capabilities and the only set of people who would meet the standard would be people who are subjected to effective
training and exercises for example athletes, boxers, wrestlers to name a few.This however implies that health under the context of complete
physical well being is unobtainable by the majority in the society and this would also contradict the fact that health is a universal basic right
for everybody.
"Complete... mental and social well being", to infuse mental and social well being into the definition is to state that happiness and
emotional stability are the criteria for selecting those that are healthy in the society. We then ask ourselves, are the happy and emotional
stress-free ones the only healthy people amongst us?, there have been cases of people with severe cases of terminal diseases as cancer,HIV/AIDS
e.t.c who live happily till d very point of death, and also a case of an individual who was addicted to smoking, who after he was weaned from his addiction
stated that he felt better but not happier. This then presents us with a paradox: One can be happy and not be in good health and vice versa .
Finally the concepts that serve as the very cause of the flaws of the definition by the WHO is the fact that it tries to maximize various variables
[physical,mental and social well being] which is not possible. and also the inclusion of "completeness" under the concept of health, for we all
know that there is nothing which is satisfactory or "okay" to a hundred percent degree, so to speak of completeness would invariable be a
disguise for saying good health is unattainable by any individual.

according to them..

So women complain that men are at the beginning of their problems.......dey claim...d words or phrases...menopause...menstrual cramps....mental anxiety....et al...are all prefixed by the word "men"....well..I'd hav agreed to their claim...buh as it is, I cnt keep my cyber-mouth shut...without sharin ma piece of mind on d issue...
lets take a ride on a pony of imagination to d not to distant past..way back to d first days of man...wen lions and sheep ate togeda...and cheetahs cuddled the calves....and the world lived in oblivion of the concept of "sin"....all was goin well....evrithn was smooth...until the supreme One decided to infuse anoda species into the flow of creation...out of love for d onli one made in his image...and the thoughts that it was fit for him to have one with whom..he cud share d same biological characterstics and attributes......of course the new species added spice to life..for adam had a reason to be happi...he had sm1 else share d bliss of life and living wiv while God attended to the business of the universe management...b4 he himself came to spend time wiv dem in the evng....there was happiness...well as it may seem for nt too long frm the day of her creation..did she allow her silly self to be beguiled by a serpent into eating from the tree of which there had been rigid instructions from the supreme one nt to eat d fruits of this particular tree....well if it had stpped at her alone....maybe this whole saga called life wud hav taken a diff turn..buh instead she beguiled her dumb and love-engulfed hubby into eatin the fruit as well..and as such plunged d world and all its inhabitant into a cauldron of problems..nw livin becomes a penace..heaven where we once had access to..nw becomes a place where we hav to live life...and use shed blood of the onli son of man as our pass into this paradise .. This been my first point, I quite agree that as it turns out today men are at the beginning of evry problem plaguing the feminine species...yet while d veracity of this fact is unquestionable...it remains certain that..d onli reason why problems abound in the world is cos of em [the women].
After givin much tots to the said problems women claim r d top on the problem-list..I also discovered dat d solution is nt far-fetched..while men are at the beginning..they are also at the end....I mean they are also the onli ones wu can provide d solution....how?? u mite ask....well on the path of menopause....I realli cant say that there exists ani man wu's capable of castin ani anti-menopause spell on women.
on the part of mental anxiety or heartbreak as many of u call it...its soo easy..all u hav to do is become a frolicker, mk sure u hav enf men @ ur disposal..d moment one drops ur glass made heart....move on to anoda one..and live ur life in oblivion of d oda...gt as many kareems..akins..jides....james...kayodes... so that the moment one breaks ur heart..u move on to d next person..
on the part of menstrual cramps...well..menstruation is jus a natural biological occurrence..so for dose of u wu hav menstrual cramps or for those of u wu jus dnt like d fact that ur body acts like a facade of d red sea evry month...its so easy...jus turn urself into a sex maniac....mk sure u gt urself pregnant as many times as possible....biologist believes dat pregnant women don't menstruate ...so u at least have nine months to live free of ur flow...all u hav to put up wiv is a buldgin belly...and if ur smart enf..d momment ur belly strts buldgin...go for an abortion...and den repeat d process all over again...u ll find out that before long u wud live in oblivion of menstrual cramps...and soon ur 45 or woteva age ur own menopause strts...den it wud all be ova...
If u cnt put up wiv all these..then shut ur effin mouth...n leave wiv it..accept em as ur share of the curse placed on ur greatest grand mom..[Eve]...u all owe her one...

Seven days

So I sat on the pavement dis evening
and gently the wind of the twilight
blew across the esplanade of my home
and kissed my skin..
I looked up at the crepuscular sky
I beheld the beauty of the artistry
of nature
the birds decorating the silence of the
twilight with their songs..
I also beheld the palm trees
dancing to the blowing tunes
of the whistling twilight wind
then my attentions were riveted
to d oceans and seas
the rivers and lakes
the mountains and canyons
I cant help buh
wonder
in 7 days were all dis created
by a majestic and supreme being