Health Promotion: Today's need

Our health or lack of it is related to our life style. Today India is suffering from dual nutritional related epidemics, that of under-nutrition and over-nutrition. Globally, ill health causing and treating are two powerful trillion dollar industies. Unless we realize this and adopt a healthy life style, it can ruin us. Health Promotion is beneficial to us individually, to our families and societies. It costs us nothing, in fact saves our hard earned money and brings pleasure and peace to all who practice it. It may be the solution to various problems we face in our family and at work. This talk will introduce the concept of Health Promotion and dwell on how to go about achieving a healthy life.

  

About Swami (Dr.) Varishthananda: 

Swami Varishthananda is a monk of the Ramakrishna Order of monks for the last 25 years. The motto of the Order is 'For Emancipation of the self and good of the world.' At present he is serving at its branch in Varanasi, Ramakrishna Mission Home of Service, Varanasi, which is mainly a 230 bedded hospital and looking after its Health Promotion Programme which caters to the need of more than 55000 villagers in poorest villages of Mirzapur and Sonebhadra districts and some slums of Varanasi as well as Gadadhar Abhyudaya Prakalpa and Swami Vivekananda Swasthya Parisheva Prakalpa. Health Promotion includes Health Education, Health Services and Healthy Environment. He is a qualified paediatrician with 3 decades of experience in Public Health.