BabySteps Psychology Magagzine

A wide range of contributory factors affects the health of individuals and their communities. People's good or bad health is determined by their environment and situations - what is happening and what has happened to them, says World Health Organization, WHO. WHO says that the following factors probably have a bigger impact on our health than access and use of health care services: Where we live   The state of our environment Genetics Our income Our level of education Our relationship with family and friends WHO says the main determinants to health are: Our economy and society  ("The social and economic environment") Where we live, what is physically around us  ("The physical environment") What we are and what we do  ("The person's individual characteristics and behaviors") Most of the factors that contribute towards our good or bad health are out of our control. According to WHO, these factors (determinants), include the following, among others: S...

Health  is:   "a resource for everyday life, not the objective of living. Health is a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities." (WHO, 1986). Understanding wellness and mental health is vital for achieving over-all health and manage illness.  The goals of BabySteps-PsychMag is; to promote a positive shift in the way people think about health, illness, and healing because achieving and maintaining health is an ongoing process. Shaped by both the evolution o f  health care  knowledge and practices as well as personal strategies and organized interventions for staying healthy known as  lifestyle management .  to provide active, passive, and assisted cues to help people observe and adopt personal health strategies. These include personal actions for preventing or minimizing the effects of a disease, usually a chronic condition, through  integrative care.  to prevent infection and illness, by promo...

An Introduction to Exploring How Biological, Psychological, Cultural, Societal, and Environmental Factors Of Life Affects Physical Health. Human beings are extraordinarily complex systems and illness is caused by a multitude of factors and not by a single causal factor. Health psychology suggests these factors emanates from a combination of Biological (e.g. a virus), Psychological (e.g. behaviours, beliefs) and Social (e.g. employment) factors aspects of everyday life. This is an attempt to move away from a simple linear model of health. In the field of physical health and psychological well-being,  Health psychology  specializes in exploring biological, psychological, cultural, societal, and environmental factors of life, and how each of these affects physical health. This holistic view of our overall health gives us a beam of hope that the route or path to achieving and maintaining “complete physical, mental and social wellbeing” is not so unattainable. But on...

Today the 67th  World Health Annual Assembly(WHA67) 2014 that  held in Geneva with the theme:  noncommunicable disease just ended (May19-23). Highlights of the WHA67 includes; new initiative to end childhood obesity(May 19), gender-based violence and newborn health(May 21), approval of monitoring framework for maternal and child nutrition(May 22), and May (23) the approval of a resolution to improve the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of viral hepatitis and proposals to improve global coordination of efforts to address noncommunicable diseases like diabetes, cancers, heart disease and stroke. Do you know that the World Health Organization, [WHO] in 1948,defined health as "a state of complete mental and social well-being and not just merely the absence of disease or infirmity" Note: This definition have not been amended since April 7th,1946]. Also its worthy of note that the WHO definition of a completely healthy person emphasized "Mental and Social well-being". ...

  The desire for the prolongation of life we may take to be one of the most universal of all human motives. Kenneth Arrow (1963).  From time to time we are overwhelmed with all kinds of health information from the mass media and social media about the best health options in terms of; Addiction, Anxiety, Aging, Behavior, Cancer, Children, Dieting, Depression, Diabetes, Exercise, Fitness, Women, Emotional and Mental health, Healthcare, Heart, Infections, Migraine, Mind, Men, Nutrition, Obesity, Pain, Public, Sex, Sleep, Smoking, Stress, Stroke, and much more!!! Herbal remedies are not left out also. We hear of new treatment of diseases we are barely aware of. New research studies according to Alice G. Walton, offer illuminating, but often tiny, pieces of the puzzle that is the human body, so it can be hard to know what to make of them all.  How can we make sense of all these avalanche of information? And which one is of personal benefit and important us?     As ...