Healthyvives Health Blog

Health security is the most important in human beings, if our health is not secured than societies are not secured. The universal declaration of human right states that everyone has to the right to life, liberty and security of persons. It was first put forward by the 1994 united national development programme (UNDP) Annual Human Development Report. The international Red Cross was founded in 1960s following the universal declaration of human right to develop human security among the human society. Health security means having low exposure to disease and high and proper access to health services, poor people are vulnerable to disease as they live in degraded areas and have poor, access to services or cannot afford medical care. For example, diarrhea because of poor water and sanitation services is a major cause of death among children; malaria and tuberculosis are other diseases that are in last trend in our society. The threat of AIDS has gone up tremendously and is affecting large sections of the population. For health security, preventing strategies are very important and are closely related to provision of basic services of water supply, sanitation and education. Of course, curative services and access to them as well as their utilization are crucial too. Health is an area where public action acquires tremendous significance. Public action is not limited to action by the state and includes action by non-government organizations and voluntary organizations. These organizations, other than government departments are quite active in the health field in developing nation developing countries. Their efforts have been remarkable in combating and building awareness about deadly disease like AIDS and in the on going pulse polio programme in India to provide oral drops to children below five year of age to prevent polio. We cannot imagine the human development and human security except the development of medical sciences and food security of human society. Right to life and right to liberty is the most essential for human security. Human security strengthened and emphasizes the citizen. But achievement of a human security required a global political culture having there values of human dignity and political rights. It is also linkage with environment and not out society. Environmental security is one of the most essential components of human security. Democracy and good governance are also most important for promoting human security. Civil wars, violence are the most disturbance for promoting human development and security. Strong and powerful governance structures complementing political economic and legal initiatives can enhance human security. However human security is the most essential for developing a building a good civil society. Food security is one of the most important components for human security. In this regard world food conference of 1974 set arrangements for food security for the human society. In 1996 world food summit adopted a complex food security for individual, household, national, global and regional level achievement. Food security means taking food for healthy life and secured food for every human being of the world people. Healthy food for healthy life and healthy human being is very important for our human societies. Social security is also very important for human security. In this regard education is the essential human capital for development of human security.