Steemit Engagement Challenge / S13W1 - "Health and our Environment"

It is yet another beautiful week. We are all grateful for life and good health. Many people always use the phrase, health is wealth. That is to say, when you are healthy, you are wealthy. This is quite true because without being healthy, you can not work to become wealthy. Well as funny as it may sound, but it is a fact.

This weeks engagement contest in @Healthy Steem community is entitled *Health and our Environment.

I will be using the contest tips to explain more on this.

Tell us in your words what you understand about Global health.

This term is used to define the effort being made to make better health available to vulnerable population or people all around the world. These ones strive to ensure that millions who are poor and cannot afford medicare services are able to do so through education, research and collaborative efforts.

It employs five major fields as it strives to provide initiatives that will get to the most vulnerable part of the world's population. These five major fields that is applied as part of the intervention are Diverse partnerships, Scientific expertise, Sustainability, Innovation and health equity.

So it seeks to entirely eliminate healthcare affordability problems between the rich and poor.

Which point is most important to you? Give your reasons.

• Providing health care to nations in crisis
• Making health care accessible to everyone
• Expanding access to vaccines and medicine
• Making healthy food more accessible
• Investing in health care workers

Among the 5 points mentioned above, the one that is most important to me is the 4th point👉 Making healthy food more accessible.

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Why do I say that it is the most important?. One of the major problems of illness and and bad health is linked to malnutrition and lack of intake of balanced diet.

If there is availability of healthy food for the vulnerable and poor masses, the level of illness will drastically reduce. Most of the health problems that causes much death are related to lack of intake of healthy food.

Additionally, healthy food is a primary need for all person, thus, when it is made available to all, the level of ill health and the scope of global health problems will be drastically reduced.

Those tackling global health problems will now have less problem and focus on major problems.

Which point is the least important to you? Give your reasons.

All points are important to me but I will like to mention one that can be avoided if certain actions are curtailed.

The one of least importance in the list is Providing health care to nations in crisis. I select it as being least
in importance to me because it can be avoided if the entire world works in unity.

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War is caused most at times by the selfish interest of two parties thus causing untold sufferings to nations and peoples.

If the parties involved in war truly values the lives of its citizens, loves them and remembers the hardship they will face due to it, they will do their best to resolve it amicable using dialogue.

So you can see, that the point is totally avoidable and hence have no need to set budgets or programs to assist nations in crisis which is beautiful coined as Humanitarian aid.

If you can add one more point, what will it be? Why?

Providing safe drinking water and Making Water accessible to all

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Water is gift from God. Even life revolves around water. Even inside the body, water is very essential. The plants depend on water to complete the process of photosynthesis to provide food. We also depend on it for so many things that we do like cleaning, drinking, washing and even for planting.

If everyone have access to safe drinking water, most of the illness will be gone.

Some of the benefits of safe drinking water are

° Drinking enough water helps to increase energy levels and eliminates fatigue.

° It assist in flushing out toxins from our body, which causes ill health.

° It assist in weight reduction and helps with skin complexion.

° It assist in digestion and helps the brain to be focused and concentrate the more.

These are just some of the benefits of safe drinking water which will be great is it can be provided for all.

Conclusion

Health is wealth. Like I said from the beginning. This contest have brought to mind the importance of striving to achieve global health. If we can all play our own roles, it can go a long way to help so many.

I invite @okere-blessing @hariadi and @steemdoctor to take part in this contest. Success to you all!