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INTRODUCTION
Good health is a boom. It is a real jewel of life, the most precious possession of man. Good health is
a possible gift of nature to man and he must give a return gift to nature by preserving and enhancing
his health potentially in life with various natural situations. A healthy person does not spend money
on medicines and visiting doctors.
The simplest and the most traditional definition of health is that, it is the freedom of sickness and
diseases. According to World Health Organisation(WHO), health is not merely absence of disease but
physical, mental and social. Health is real wealth. A healthy person is an asset to himself, to his
family and to his community. When a nation has healthy people, a healthy environment and a
healthy mindset, we can say that the nation is wealthy because all their efforts will be geared
towards developing their economy and not towards fighting diseases.
Here we will be discussing the physical, mental and social diseases that affect our country Nigeria
and the world at large.
A HEALTHY NATION IS A WEALTHY NATION
As aforementioned, health is not merely absence of disease but physical, mental and even social.
Now lets look at them and see how they affect the nation.
PHYSICAL HEALTH
Physical health can also be very deep. Being physically healthy is mostly all about having a fit body
inside and outside. To have a healthy individual helps a nation boosts her economy. For instance, a
sick child will definitely hinder the parents from going to work and at the same time misses his/her
classes that day. These have negative effects on the economy of a nation.
Nigeria as a case study has suffered so many physical diseases but, i will lay emphases on two most
dangerous diseases common to Nigeria and those diseases are malaria and HIV/AIDS.
MALARIA IN NIGERIA
According to roll back malaria, there are an estimated thirty million acute cases of malaria every year
around the world,resulting in more than one million deaths. Approximately ninty percent of these
deaths occur in African mostly in young children. Malaria in Nigeria, according to the Nigerian
ministry of health (MOH), is responsible for sixty percent of out patient visits to health facilities;
thirty percent of childhood deaths; twenty-five percent of deaths in children under one year and
eleven percent of maternal deaths.
Further more, the Federal Ministry of Health estimates a financial loss from malaria (in the form of
treatment cost, prevention, loss of man-hours e.t.c.) to be roughly 132 billion naira per year
(approximately $838,564,000 USD). We these staggering statistics, it is clear the health is a
prerequisite for economic prosperity. The disease is directly contributing to poverty, low
productivity, and reduced school attendance in Nigeria. The National Malaria Control
Mental health also entails being optimistic, praying to God and doing our civil duties. For instance
one can try to maintain laws guiding traffic even when there are no police. All these mental qualities
helps a nation to be wealthy because he resources would be geared towards the right direction.
SOCIAL HEALTH
Social health helps the citizen of a nation to avoid racial and religious discrimination and also
terrorism. If the citizens of a country are socially balanced, they will work together and avoid
emphasis on where different individuals emanate from.
Social health helps the citizens of a country to work together hence bringing large output. Social
health is how you get along with other people, how other people react to you and how interact with
society. This social health can be difficult for someone with autism to form relationships and make
friend due to difficulties with social skills. Developing social skills can improve the relationship one
has with other people and help one to make friends. When all the citizens of a country acquire this
social health skills it will go a long way in the wealth of the nation because there will not be any
distinction between the citizens of the country and thereby encourages working together for the
common benefit of everybody in the country.
CONCLUSION
Finally, a healthy nation is a wealthy nation, but a healthy nation begins with a healthy individual.
We all have to make a solemn effort to be mentally, physically and socially healthy, this way, we will
be developing our economy.
It does not matter how much money one has acquired if he doesnt have good health to enjoy it is
just like a millionaire who is confined to a wheel chair. Where is his happiness? Furthermore healthy
persons can work for long hours without getting tired thereby making the nation a wealthy nation by
their work output.