Health

QUESTIONS
How do you like care of your health?
When I have time, I like go out in nature, or I like some sports, f.g. cycling, or swimming. I cant eat health food, but its only my aberrance.

What is the ideal of many people living in developed democracies?
A healthy, strong and beautiful body is an ideal of majority of people and not only of the young ones. It is not so very difficult to pursue this aim if you live in a developed country whith a highly developed welfare system and good conditions for health care.

What is the definition of health?
The World Health Organization has defined health as a state of physical , psychical and social prosperity and not only as the absence of disease.

Why has health become an international issue?
The problem of the development of human being is just like the protection of nature and enviroment, an international issue. The idea of the necessity of international health cooperation has originated.

What is the program of the World Health Organization?
The program of the WHO includes organizing international medical conferencies, the development of welfare systems especially in the countries of the Third World, the prevention and inspection of illnesses, advisory and informative servise concering epidemics like the plague, cholera, small-pox, typhus, malaria and virus diseases like flu or infantile paralysis.

Research of which diseases is now realized on an international basis?
A great part of medical research is realized on the basis of cooperation and coordination among different countries, more recently, especially the research of cancer and AIDS.

What is AIDS?
It is the viral disease that impairs the immune system of the human body which thus can get any infection.

When and where was it first identified?
AIDS was first identifield in the USA in 1981

What is the number of AIDS infected people in the world nowadays?
About 10 milion people infected.

Does it mean that they will all develop AIDS?
It does not meanthat they all will develop the disease but all of them are able to infect other people.

Can they infect other people?
AIDS is infection desease, yes they are able to infect other people.