Healthy lifestyles in the perspective of homo eligens

2018 ◽  
Vol 87 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-47
Author(s):  
Piotr Stępniak

The article is devoted to lifestyles in the context of health. According to vision of A. Siciński — lifestyle is a culturally conditioned way of meeting needs, habits and norms. They regulate the value systems adopted by an individual or group. Lifestyle is formed by the interaction of widely understood living conditions and individual patterns of behavior. Behaviors in turn are determined by personal characteristics and sociocultural factors. Lifestyle and health behaviors are shaped throughout a person's life, but its foundations are formed in childhood and adolescence. The author of the article considers that a key category in the analysis of pro or anti-healthy lifestyle is the free choice of man. A man can decide how he wants to live and also in what health he wants to live. His choices determine the way of life. The theoretical basis for discussing in this article the above-mentioned issue will be Siciński's concept of so-called homo eligens which is little known, but worthy of dissemination. It is the most important part of his theory of lifestyles.

Author(s):  
Jabulani Makhubele ◽  
Selelo Frank Rapholo

Child sexual abuse is a social and health issue that affects citizens across the globe. It has a number of physical, psychological and emotional consequences. Children are reluctant to talk about their involvement in sexual abuse owing to various reasons. Therefore, forensic interviewers need to understand the process of disclosure when conducting forensic assessments. They also need to be watchful of various dynamics that are likely to have an impact on the disclosure rate. The aim of this study was to describe the dynamics during forensic assessments in the context of the black South African child when disclosing child sexual abuse. A descriptive design using stratified random, purposive and convenient sampling techniques to select the participants was employed, resulting in 14 participants (13 were females and only one was male). The data were collected by means of semi-structured in-depth interviews and were thematically analysed using the Nvivo program. The findings reveal that personal characteristics of the child and the interviewer, their communication abilities, blind assessments and informed allegation interviews have an impact on forensic assessments of black South African children. It is concluded that the dynamics of disclosing child sexual abuse during forensic assessments in terms of the variables of the study are not unique, except in terms of sociocultural value systems, beliefs and customs. As a result, it is recommended that the forensic interviewers come to the developmental level of the child, speak his/her language or use translators for him/her to understand, and to follow blind assessments interviews as opposed to informed allegation interviews. However, informed allegations interviews are recommended when assessing very young children.


Author(s):  
Ritesh Dwivedi

Customers of this era have turned out to be more worried about their wellbeing and furthermore slanted to keep up personal satisfaction which is reflected through the special utilization of those items that ensures the great condition of their wellbeing and additionally give most extreme fulfilment. In quest for a healthy way of life Indians have turned out to be more disposed to Ayurvedic or Herbal treatment as an option for common cure. This specific inclination has been in charge of exceptional prominence of Baba Ramdev's Patanjali Ayurvedic items. In today's huge market with changing client needs, Baba Ramdev has built up a special mix of innovation with Ayurveda, affordable pricing, easy accessibility under the brand Patanjali to pull the market. The Ayurveda theory and the key to healthy lifestyle has attracted many customers and changed their perspective about their lifestyle and product usage. Purpose of the study is to evaluate the preference of Patanjali over other leading products while understanding the its marketing mix. The consumer belief in natural and herbal products has become stronger day by day and created huge change in customer preference over other brands.


Author(s):  
Cayetana Ruiz-Zaldibar ◽  
Inmaculada Serrano-Monzó ◽  
Olga Lopez-Dicastillo ◽  
María Jesús Pumar-Méndez ◽  
Andrea Iriarte ◽  
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Positive parenting programs are a key strategy to promote the development of parental competence. We designed a pilot study based on parental self-efficacy to promote healthy lifestyles in their children aged between 2 to 5 years old. In this pilot study, we aimed to assess the effects of a parenting program on parental self-efficacy and parenting styles. Twenty-five parents were allocated into intervention (N = 15) and control group (N = 10). Parents from the intervention group received four group sessions (120 mi per session) to develop a positive parenting, parenting styles and parenting skills regarding to children’s diet, exercise, and screen time, and two additional sessions about child development and family games. Parents from the control group received these two latter sessions. Parental self-efficacy, parenting styles, and meal-related parenting practices were measured before and after the intervention and at 3-month follow-up. Acceptability and feasibility of the program was also measured. Quantitative data were analyzed using the repeat measures ANOVA and ANCOVA tests and the effect size calculation. Content analysis was used to analyse open questions. Positive trends were found regarding parental self-efficacy and the use of authoritative parenting style. Parents also reported a great acceptability of the program getting high satisfaction. According to the feasibility barriers and facilitators aspects were identified. The positive trends founded in this study support the development of parenting programs to promote healthy lifestyle in children.


2020 ◽  
pp. 92-98
Author(s):  
Yeng Chen Mong

In the context of deep social and economic transformations in the country, the contradiction between the growing need of the society for active and healthy people and the catastrophic deterioration of children’s health becomes more acute. Complex studies show that the chronic pathology of schoolchildren is at an extremely high level. Against the backdrop of social insecurity, the problem of alcoholization and drug addiction of children and adolescents is growing, which poses a threat of moral decay to young people. Children’s health is affected by a number of negative factors: a decline in the standard of living in the country as a whole, a widespread deterioration of the environmental situation, and negative changes in the financial situation and the educational potential of the family. Unfortunately, the share of guilt for the current situation today is assigned to the school, which does not meet the modern requirements of hygiene and natural sciences of age physiology, causes disruption of adaptation, chronic fatigue of children and provokes the growth of diseases. Educational potential of school is considerably reduced: “...educational practice stays in a condition of influence on it of casual reference points, elements of positive, and even more negative, influences and uncontrollability”. In these conditions, the problem of maintaining health and education for a healthy lifestyle in schoolchildren is of particular interest to researchers. In the process of upbringing of children of primary school age the role of significant others - teachers and parents - is great. However, for the effectiveness of education for a healthy lifestyle is not enough readiness of the teacher, as the categories of lifestyle, lifestyle is largely associated with the family, with the way of life, with traditions, with the way of life of parents. Parents act as a role model for younger students, so in the process of upbringing important factors are personal, purely individual characteristics of parents, which include health status, physical culture, and attitude to health, culture of communication, ethical culture and experience of a healthy lifestyle.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kharisya Ayu Effendi ◽  
Denny Saputera ◽  
Sakina Ichsani

Pandemi Covid-19 telah mempengaruhi tatanan hidup dan kebiasaan masyarakat di dunia pada umumnya dan di Indonesia pada khususnya. Kesehariannya masyarakat yang telah terbiasa untuk berinteraksi secara langsung, karena adanya Covid-19 maka masyarakat harus mulai terbiasa dengan pola hidup sehat yaitu dengan penerapan social distancing. Keuangan keluarga mengalami dampak yang buruk akibat pandemi Covid-19. Implementasi pelaksanaannya dengan memberikan pembelajaran melalui daring dengan menggunakan aplikasi google meet dan dilanjutkan dengan melalui forum diskusi tanya jawab dengan mitra yang tergabung dalam KADIN Jawa Barat. Di masa pandemi Covid-19, keluarga harus mampu mengimplementasikan financial health chek up didalam keuangan rumah tangganya. Karena menurunnya keuangan keluarga berdampak pada menurunnya konsumsi belanja rumah tangga dapat berakibat pada menurunnya pertumbuhan perekonomian suatu negara. Strategi yang dapat digunakan oleh keluarga dalam menempuh kondisi masa pandemi Covid-19 ini adalah dengan mencatat dan merinci dari setiap pengeluaran dan pemasukan, membuat budget untuk setiap pengeluaran dan menghindari pengeluaran yang tidak perlu.Kata Kunci :Personal Financial Health Check-Up, Keuangan Keluarga, Pandemi Covid-19 The Covid-19 pandemic has affected the way of life and habits of people in the world in general and in Indonesia in particular. On a daily basis, people who are accustomed to interacting directly, because of Covid-19, people must start to get used to a healthy lifestyle, namely the application of social distancing. Family finances were badly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. The implementation of the implementation is by providing online learning using the google meet application and continued by going through a question and answer discussion forum with partners who are members of the West Java KADIN. During the Covid-19 pandemic, families must be able to implement financial health check-ups in their household finances. Because the decline in family finances has an impact on decreasing consumption of household spending, it can result in a decline in the economic growth of a country. The strategy that can be used by families in dealing with the conditions of the Covid-19 pandemic is to record and detail each expenditure and income, create a budget for each expense and avoid unnecessary expenses.Keywords: : Personal Financial Health Check-Up, Family Finances, Covid-19 Pandemic


POPULATION ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-124
Author(s):  
Natalia S. Grigorieva ◽  
Tatiana V. Сhubarova

The article discusses the gender aspects of health, proceeding from the assumption that taking them into account is likely to increase the effectiveness of motivational measures in the field of forming healthy lifestyles. The methodological basis of this paper is the concept of health promotion supported by WHO that is based on intersectoral and interdisciplinary approaches. It incorporates both a certain system of values, primarily active involvement of people in maintaining their health, and a set of state activities, among which motivating people to healthy lifestyles is important. Behavioral economics as an area of an interdisciplinary research on decision-making substantiates the mechanisms that should be used, among other things, to achieve the goals of healthcare policy, and to solve such problems of modern society as lack of physical activity, tobacco and alcohol abuse, and unhealthy diet.Gender approach that includes gender aspects in the process of analyzing the situation and making political decisions aimed at improving population health becomes a precondition for increasing the effectiveness of motivational measures taken in the interests of promoting the health of citizens. The results of the surveys on the impact of behavioral factors on the health status of the population of Russia conducted by the Russian statistical agency (Rosstat) in 2013 and 2018 were used as a source of empirical data. They made it possible to identify both the differences and the similarities of women and men with regard to behavior motives concerning certain parameters of a healthy lifestyle, namely physical activities and diet. The authors conclude that, despite the importance of using measures aimed at changing behavior, sustainable overcoming of gender stereotypes depends on the intersection of behavioral and socio-economic determinants of health and healthy behavior.


2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
pp. 10-21
Author(s):  
Ekaterina I. Akimova ◽  
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Anatoly G. Madzhuga ◽  
Raisa V. Shurupova ◽  
Elena L. Bueverova ◽  
...  

Confronting current challenges, especially the COVID-19 pandemic, and striving to create a hopeful future – an era of life and active longevity – determine an urgent global need to implement the principles of humanity and create a new understanding of health and a healthy lifestyle, correlated with a fundamental respect for the dignity of life. Based on the idea of the relationship between health and a healthy lifestyle through the inherent value of the individual, embodying the intrinsic value of life, basic contradictions were identified: the contradiction between the understanding of health as a state of physical, mental, and social well-being and a healthy lifestyle, which focuses on the physical aspect of health, omitting the spiritual component; the contradiction between the numerous proposed strategies for a healthy lifestyle and the lack of a fundamental goal that expresses its value-semantic result. In the aspect of philosophical-methodological ideas about health and a healthy lifestyle, their essential binding element was defined – the good that embodies the result of the ultimate aspiration of a person. The resolution of the basic contradictions revealed in the analysis of philosophical-methodological ideas about health and a healthy lifestyle made it possible to present new, clearer definitions of health and a healthy lifestyle: health is a good that allows a person to embody the value of life in a specific reality; a healthy lifestyle is an individual way of life, which is based on a person’s respect for the dignity of life and creates a benefit to him/herself and others, gaining the joy of existence. A new concept of a healthy lifestyle was developed, which defined the joy of existence as its fundamental goal, implemented by a person through the creation of good for oneself and others in a system of socio-cultural and natural interaction based on respect for the dignity of life.


2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-125
Author(s):  
Asnurul Novia Narendra ◽  
Sri Kusuma Habsari ◽  
Deny Tri Ardianto

This research focuses on the symbols contained in the four Buavita video ads, namely Buavita Mix Berries, Buavita Kelapa, Buavita Mangga, and Buavita Jambu. These ad videos seem to be able to segment the community into a type of society. The research aims to prove the existence of certain symbols in the Buavita advertisement video as a practice of hegemony and perpetuating gender inequality. This research uses descriptive qualitative method with four theories of cultural studies as the theoretical basis. The results showed that Buavita's ad-style healthy lifestyle became a trick of capitalism in inviting people to consume symbols and make profits. The video presentation of Buavita's advertisement is also a medium for the perpetuation of the concept of the traditional gender role that positions women as domestic agents, passive and consumptive, while men as non-domestic, active, and productive agents. 


2020 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Raquel de Deus Mendonça ◽  
Mariana Souza Lopes ◽  
Maria Cecília Ramos de Carvalho ◽  
Patrícia Pinheiro de Freitas ◽  
Aline Cristine Souza Lopes

This study aims to measure healthy lifestyles according to the time of participation in the Programa Academia da Saúde (PAS). We used baseline data from a randomized controlled community trial with a representative sample of PAS users from Belo Horizonte, Brazil (n = 3,414). The data on healthy lifestyles collected were: daily fruit and vegetables intake (≥5 servings); physical activity engagement (≥180min/week); body mass index (18.5kg/m² ≥ BMI ≤ 24.9kg/m²), smoking and drinking habits. The time of participation in the PAS was calculated by the difference between the date of registration in the program and the date of the data collection. Logistic regression models were used to evaluate associations between healthy lifestyles and time of participation in the PAS. Almost half of the participants (43.3%) had three healthy lifestyle factors. The prevalence of having all five factors varied according to the time of participation in the service; the lowest rates were in the first quartile (4.9%) and the highest rates in the fourth quartile (8.1%). Those who have attended the service for the longest time (fourth quartile) were more likely to have a healthy BMI (OR = 1.43; 95%CI: 1.14-1.80; p = 0.002) and to avoid smoking (OR = 1.62; 95%CI: 1.06-4.49; p = 0.01), compared to those who have attended the program for less time (first quartile). The prevalence of healthy lifestyles in PAS users was low. However, a longer permanence in the program seems to favor positive changes on BMI and on smoking habits.


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