The phenomenon of the society of healthy people is known to modern man mainly due to the works of Erich Fromm. This psychoanalyst created several important books, which largely determined the development of ideas about society as a unit. However, today the term designates not only the phenomenon considered in its calculations. Let us examine what can be called such a society and what are its features.
general information
According to experts, a society of healthy people exists, because there is security of life and the stability of state progress. These two phenomena are among the key factors due to which the country can develop, society - to improve. In many ways, the stability of the formation of a power and the safety of living within it determine the health of all segments of the population, representatives of all age groups. Our country is developing a youth policy aimed at promoting a healthy lifestyle. According to many activists, the more representatives of the teenage and youth age groups adhere to the healthy lifestyle, the better and healthier our society as a whole will be in the future.
For any society that has reached a certain level of development, the health of the nation, achieved through a healthy lifestyle, becomes a key value. Society receives a workable person, worthy development prospects, and the generation as a whole is full of health. All life factors have a certain connection with health, sometimes direct, in some cases indirect. Adhering to the healthy lifestyle, you can give yourself great opportunities in the future, so this image is considered especially relevant for young people. Once you have mastered it and made it your daily routine, a person will be able to correctly prioritize and determine which way best suits him from the whole variety of options for building an adult life.
Dangers and protection against them
The formation of a healthy lifestyle in society is one of the methods of protecting the younger generation from the main threats inherent in modern society. According to analysts, dependencies of all types and forms are especially dangerous for young people. Many are addicted to tobacco, alcohol or drugs. This poses a considerable threat to the future. No less significant is the spread of sexually transmitted infections, HIV. All these problems were initially medical, but as the scale of the disaster increased, they became social. To one degree or another, they affect not only the health of an individual person, but also the life, opportunities, future generation as a whole.
Lack of proper attention to the formation of a healthy society leads to a deterioration in the reproductive function of the new generation. The possibilities of forming an adequate family, capable of giving birth and raising healthy children, are significantly reduced. The modern healthcare system is forced to spend more and more resources on the fight against the spread of HIV. The problems listed above, which impede the building of a healthy society and worsen the capabilities of an individual, threaten the development of the state as a whole.
Current measures
To promote a healthy lifestyle in society, activists believe, it is necessary to popularize the positive habits associated with everyday life. The population should have a maximum of relevant information on the impact of various factors on health and the future. It is necessary to fully convey the data on what threatens human health, how relevant the problem is and concerns everyone without exception. Young people should have an accurate understanding of all the possible risks and measures that allow them to confront. According to many, the promotion of healthy lifestyles is a key component, thanks to which you can create a layer of young people who are positive, living on healthy lifestyles. Such people can become better in different areas, they strive to create, create and improve the world.
It is proposed to organize a variety of projects dedicated to informing the population and promoting healthy lifestyle. Such should be only one aspect of great social work, covering all social strata. At its expense, one can prevent the actualization of dependence and the even wider spread of this phenomenon. The right approach to providing the population with correct, accurate, relevant information, according to public figures, will help reduce the spread of HIV. The more people accept the healthy lifestyle, the better will be the future of the nation as a whole.
What to strive for?
Promotion of a healthy lifestyle in society, according to activists of such projects, will increase the level of information support. The younger generation, young people will know more and more precisely about how socially significant diseases affect the life of society as a whole, of an individual, in particular. One of the results of mass public awareness will be the understanding by everyone and everyone of how much dependence on drugs, tobacco products, and alcohol affects a person and society. If we implement an educational mass project, everyone will have an accurate idea of the importance and impact of a person’s deviant behavior, HIV infection on himself and those around him.
It is assumed that if it is possible to realize a full-fledged work in raising awareness, it is possible to increase the number of people practicing healthy lifestyles. It is necessary to strive to increase interest in movements. Perhaps just informing the general public will be enough to interest many in the healthy lifestyle and the various aspects of this image of everyday life.
Satisfaction index
Scientists identify several key principles through which the image of a healthy society is built. Let's consider them one by one. The first place belongs to the satisfaction index. This is a reflection in the numbers of a person’s opinion about how satisfied he is with his life, how saturated it is. Usually use a ten-point scale. Such an index is considered the key for any individual. It is more important for a person than other aspects. Economic progress, the improvement of technology, democracy and other nuances are only phenomena that support the key index. By themselves, they mean little to a person, they are considered by a person only as an element that affects his degree of satisfaction.
It has long been known that only wealth or possession of the latest technology is not a guarantee of the absolute happiness of a person. Moreover, there are many examples of people who had such property, while they were not happy and content with their lives. There are numerous examples of relatively poor people who, at the same time, rated their lives as satisfactory, and on a rating scale of several points fairly treated the average level of happy people.
Social progress
This aspect of the image of a healthy society includes an understanding of the development of society. The process should proceed so that the average satisfaction index is relatively high, stably adheres to such indicators. Stability cannot be called a statistical characteristic of society. It is wiser to label this as progress. This is due to the peculiarities of human nature: a person has a high index of satisfaction, creating something, changing himself and the space in which he lives. Stagnation always leads to a decrease in the index parameters, even when comfort and prosperity are obvious and undeniable. Stagnation is a phenomenon that lowers the saturation of human existence, because it requires the suppression of desires due to internal prohibitions or external factors.
According to some, the key to a healthy society is to prevent social stagnation. The form of progress is determined by the values inherent in the people who shape society. Depends on values, why a person’s life will seem saturated to them. For some, this habitat in the absence of property and the free use of natural beauties, others consider progress only in the context of space flights and technological progress. The change of desires, priorities, giving a person a sense of the richness of his existence, allows society as a whole to transform. At the same time, social progress changes form, but the fact of satisfaction remains.
Private initiative
When it is said that a healthy society is the future of a nation, they usually put the ability of people to take the initiative in this concept. As is known from the calculations of many sociologists, private initiative is one of the key factors that allow society to develop. Humanity has accumulated innumerable experience in attempts to form centralized powers - both destructive and soft varieties. Officials representing the state, no matter how clever, can not replace the initiative of a person - and those are in the millions, because so many people live in power. Every person, having the opportunity, the freedom to change the environment, spends his strength on aspects important to him, resorting to his own life force. No matter how good the centralized plans developed by the authorities, they will never have the same effect, they will not be so detailed and effective.
A healthy society, a healthy generation is formed when there is an initiative of an individual, protected by a state, when a person has property that allows it to be realized. In many ways, protecting the person’s ability to be proactive is the basis of a modern highly developed society. No matter how much money a person who does not have the freedom to change the environment, he still does not know happiness. However, in many powers this postulate, long proven by sociologists, has not yet been accepted, therefore the "majority dictatorship" rules. Moreover, not enough attention is paid to the fact that any society is a set of minorities, therefore, the majority that governs life turns into a destructive mechanism that devours society from the inside, leading to the suppression of the initiative of an individual. Nobody benefits from this, but society as a whole loses a lot.
Motivation and initiative
Creating a healthy society involves promoting private initiative. You need to understand that external sources cannot give a person the motivation for its formation, even in theory. High saturation of life occurs if a person does what she wants to do. You can’t deceive a person or force him to do something. A citizen can believe in the dogmas relegated to him by power, nevertheless he will not feel himself living a full life, he will not be able to give birth and show initiative. A low level of saturation with life is an obvious signal that a person lives self-deception, trying to force himself to do something that does not cause love and sympathy. A person’s initiative is an unusual resource whose importance cannot be underestimated. It is formed unpredictably, spontaneously, only in conditions when the personality is free. The initiative is growing slowly, it can not be simulated or purchased for money. To provide society with this wealth, it is necessary to provide each member with the opportunity of free existence in order to increase the richness of life.
Since the works devoted to which society can be considered healthy, clearly indicate the need for high levels of satisfaction index, one of the most important state tasks is related to its increase. As can be concluded from the foregoing, the most effective method involves not mixing in current events, without hindering private initiative. Strong driving forces are inherent in people, thanks to which people are active and do everything themselves so that their life changes for the better. The task of a centralized power is not to impede this.
Is it all so clear?
In an effort to build a healthy society, the powers of the state can make efforts, stimulating various lines of activity of people, supporting private initiative. One “but”: only the existing one can be stimulated. Nothing can be done if the phenomenon is still absent. Stimulation is possible when both sides (man and power) work productively and mutually, benefiting from this.
Any restriction, especially a ban, is a factor that reduces private initiative, thereby worsening the prospects for a healthy society. An exception is a situation when people themselves realize the importance and significance of a specific prohibition and understand that adhering to it is beneficial for all parties to work. Restrictions are really necessary for normal social progress, mutual existence and interaction of individual groups and persons. If certain minorities know that their interests are protected, they are ready to advocate for other groups, as well as work for the good of society and take the initiative to improve the living environment.
Is it necessary or not?
The existence of a healthy society is possible only in conditions where, in principle, there are no unreasonable prohibitions. For a long time, one curious rule has been formulated: everything that is not forbidden can be done. It must be respected unquestionably if there is a desire to build an adequate society with good development prospects. The right to freedom in modern society is something that should be venerated almost above all. Ideally, the task of the power’s authorities is to defend the rights of those who exercise freedom of action. At the same time, you need to be able to distinguish between morality and damage to health (this is connected, in particular, with restrictions on smoking). Morality is a private matter that is not a sufficient basis for prohibitions. We can talk about public health only if morality remains the chosen one as a limiter, which is applied voluntarily, individually.
Skilled minority
This concept for a healthy society is one of the most important if society wants to develop. What is commonly called the majority is a rather amorphous something that does not actually exist in reality. There is a momentary majority that arises when a certain issue is considered. Within any majority that has existed in society for quite a long time (for example, believers) there are many additional groups divided by criteria - ritual, moral, and so on. If the interests of the minority are violated in the state, we can say that no one's interests are respected. The dictatorship of the majority is the destruction of a power from within, by its own forces. In such circumstances, private initiative disappears first, the state as a whole suffers, and citizens face devastation, a public and personal crisis.
Health and Daily Life
An important aspect of the formation of healthy youth, a healthy society is the provision to everyone of information about what affects a person’s condition and allows him to develop physically and mentally. HLS is a complex phenomenon formed by several areas, including food, physical education, leisure activities, social interactions, and self-improvement. Healthy lifestyle is a legal phenomenon, a social and cultural personality space, the spiritual world of a person. The possibility of its implementation is determined by production, industrial factors, communications and economic development, agro-cultural progress of the state.
The relevance of HLS should not be underestimated. In recent years, it has been increasingly said that the key to a healthy society is a healthy child. It can be so if his parents are healthy, if the younger generation itself practices healthy lifestyles. Such a way of being allows everyone to realize how bad the habits associated with tobacco, alcohol and drugs are, how badly chosen diets strongly influence them. HLS makes it possible for a person to realize how severely the effect of stressful factors is, why a lack of physical activity leads to negative consequences. HLS helps to evaluate what and to what extent affects the well-being of a person, her health and illness, life expectancy.
Relevance of the issue
In recent years, activists have increasingly heard assurances that the key to a healthy society is a healthy child. This is not surprising, because the very phenomenon of healthy lifestyle is attracting increasing public attention. Any person wants to live long and high quality, feeling great. Many organizations appeared (private, sovereign) that set themselves the task of promoting healthy lifestyle and informing the population of useful information related to the aggressive influence of various life factors and the conditions in which a person lives. Still, not everyone realizes that bad habits, lack of awareness in the aspects of the influence of various factors ultimately affect the state of health.
In a physically healthy society, the likelihood of social turmoil is less. As noted from observations of modern life, if a person is sick with something, the likelihood of worsening social aspects of his existence increases. However, despite the various means and methods of promoting healthy lifestyles, it’s “still there.” Among our compatriots there are still a lot of smokers, drug addicts and alcoholics, people who over-eat food and neglect sports. It is assumed that this is due to childhood - many of the impressions from that period are related to being indoors, not outside, so the corresponding templates have been formed.
Healthy lifestyle and children
Since no one doubts the influence of a healthy lifestyle on society, accustoming the younger generation to such habits and everyday life comes to the fore. Raising a child does not always include providing him with sufficient information about the benefits of HLS, since not every parent understands this. It is largely determined how much the value system of healthy lifestyle will be relevant for a child, by a parental example. No matter how the elders impose healthy daily routine on their children, if these people themselves do not practice such a life, the youngest will not support him.
About Aspects
A healthy lifestyle promoted in modern society involves a review of the diet and one's daily routine in order to introduce more physical activity into it. In order for HLS to be useful and practiced with pleasure, it is necessary to draw up a harmonious plan, program. In order for a person to feel good, he needs not only to eat properly and regularly exercise, but these two points seem to many an insurmountable problem. Some are unable to eat properly, because of the lifestyle they find it difficult to eat regularly. Others are not able to correctly allocate free time, so it is not possible in the morning to allocate even half an hour for simple exercises.
Daily quality nutrition and reasonable physical activity are the foundation of healthy lifestyle. Particular attention must be paid to these aspects. To keep yourself in good shape, it is worthwhile to engage in special practices - fortunately, there are a lot of them invented, so everyone will find something to their taste. HLS favors yoga and fitness, energy classes, swimming and running, skiing. You can go ice skating, go to athletics. The possibilities of the sea, you just need to find something that suits yourself personally. Each lesson, being selected taking into account personal characteristics, will surely become a source of joy, make a person more energetic, give a positive attitude. The basic rule of any practice is regularity. Do not go to extremes and give yourself an excessive load. HLS does not approve of this approach, since excessive efforts harm health, especially if they are chosen without taking into account the person’s age and physiology.
