Volume : VII, Issue : XI, November - 2017

HEALTH STATUS AND WELLNESS OF WOMEN IN RURAL KARNATAKA.

Jyothi Tb

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 The most basic aspect of human life is good health which unfortunately cannot be given or distributed. It is to be actively acquired and maintained. It forms an integral component of overall socio–economic development of any nation. Health is the functional and/or metabolic efficiency of an organism both at the micro (cellular) and macro(socio)level. Some health challenges affect both women and men but, because they have a greater or different impact on women ,they require responses that are tailored specifically to women’s needs. Other conditions affected men and women more or less equally, but women face greater difficulties in getting the health employment limit the ability of women to protect their health and achieve optimal health status. Quite appropriately the English word  ‘ health’  from the old English word hale meaning ‘wholeness’,  a being whole, sound or well. Hale comes form the proto–Indo–European root kailo, meaning ‘ whole   ,uninjured, of good omen’. The state of the organism when it functions optimally, without evidence of diseases or abnormality, we feel that as good health. But wellness is more than health. The Alliance Institute for Integrative medicine viewed that  ‘’Wellness is much more than just a state of physical health, It also encompasses emotional stability, clear thinking, the ability to love create emace change, continuing sense of spirituality. ’National wellness institute viewed that wellness is an active process of becoming aware of and making choices towards or more successful existence. Wellness is a dynamic process of change and growth. Rural society mostly mostly depends of wellness of people. Rurality’s are not in a position to buy affordable health facilities. But wellness will be within their reach. However it is not fare on to consider health is not essential in rural areas.welness sometimes also depends on the affordable and available health facilities. It is disheartening to note that rural India even today is not free from socio–economic maladies. Adequate provision of primary health and sanitation, education and other basic infrastructure facilities are scarce and disgraceful in rural India.

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Jyothi TB, HEALTH STATUS AND WELLNESS OF WOMEN IN RURAL KARNATAKA., INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-11 | November-2017

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