Importance of Health Awareness sessions!

How effective are Health Awareness sessions in Schools, Colleges, Co-working places, and Corporate?

Health awareness means teaching other people about various factors of staying healthy. Even today many people are unaware of the activities that they should be doing in order to keep themselves healthy. Nowadays, many NGOs and government institutions are involved in such kind of a noble thing. Awareness can be related to anything which covers the health aspects, which includes making people aware of the diseases, prevention, home remedies, treatments, nutritional deficiencies etc. 

Health Awareness Sessions in Schools-

Children are the future star of any country or society. If they are healthy their future is going to be bright and so do the countries.

The schooling age of any children is a time when they develop new habits. Due to such programs, children get to know about many things in school including health and not just academic skills. As witnessed on a very large scale, when children hit their puberty they develop many bad habits like drinking alcohol, smoking, having tobacco etc and the same can easily be prevented if they are being taught about the side-effects of these habits on their health. Their mind should be fed with things which are going to boost their health. The next important stage after schooling is going to be the adolescence age which is the most crucial in every individual’s life. Thus, programs with the same theme are must in schools.

These health programs can be more effective if both parents & children join these sessions together because things being taught in the awareness programs can be carefully implied more by parents.  

Health Awareness Sessions in Colleges-

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College time is that time of a person’s life where he/she can frame his/her future. Awareness about health-related stuff is very important at such level as students at this time tend to develop many bad habits which include smoking, drinking alcohol, etc. Due to these health-related awareness programs, they can learn about the essence of exercising and developing healthy habits. They can be also made aware of diseases which are more prone to develop at this age.

Health Awareness Sessions in Co-working Places & Corporate-

Co-Working Places have budding Entrepreneurs & Startups who work day and night to get their business idea accomplished. Mostly, these people tend to forget the importance of happiness, food & nutrition in their life, because of which they tend to develop Stress. Also, we can see in public places, if a person is suffering from some disease people tend to ignore him/her a lot because they are unaware of the communicable & non-communicable diseases. 

These programs can also make them aware of the cleanliness and the hygiene that they should maintain in order to lead a healthy life. Awareness about diets and exercises can also be of great help in boosting the health.

Despite being educated, many people lack knowledge about the basic health measures. Especially, both men & women should be made aware of feminine health issues like menstrual problems, pregnancy, nutrition and other basic things through such awareness programs. We live in a country where talking about the female problems in open is considered to be shameful & because of such-regular sessions, these taboos’ can be eradicated from society.

Health awareness programs can help them quit smoking, lead a healthy life and ways to manage stress. Making employees aware of the fact that sitting before a computer screen for the entire day can cause certain health issues like diabetes, heart diseases, obesity, & more will help to create not only a positive but also a healthy environment at work-place. 

These programs educate them, guide them and make them change their lives for better, under the roof of the workplace.

Initiating a Health Awareness Program-

• Health awareness programs can be initiated and made successful in many ways. When we are talking of schools, a direct interaction with the students is the best way to spread awareness. NGOs and health care organizations can set up a campaign at colleges and workplaces. 
• In today’s time, social media is the biggest and effective tool to spread ideas in a much better way. Places where the organizations can’t reach, your message will reach through it. Mass media and social marketing can influence people in changing their behavior. For the success of any program, it is a must to make people trust the information delivered. 
• The other means to spread such awareness besides direct communication can be via books, articles published in newspapers and other methods which comprise of reading. Storytelling can be another method which can be convincing and efficient especially for children.
• Speeches by Physicians and qualified doctors can leave a great impact on people’s mind as we tend to trust those people who are experts.

Final Words-

Health awareness programs can be very effective. The government should encourage these practices more and should also encourage the NGOs on spreading awareness at required places.

Be Aware and Be Healthy!

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Article Credits: Hafsa Zamindar | Mumbai | India

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