HEALTH EDUCATION AND AWARENESS – EVERY CHURCH SHOULD HAVE IT

I can remember the prayer lines that would always form in the church when the leader or guest speaker would offer prayers for the sick. The people who stood in the prayer lines were mainly the elderly then; as I fast forward to the late nineties and these present years, those in the prayer lines for some ailment are younger as compared to years before. High blood pressure and diabetes were among the most commonly mention ailments that I would hear about when people would mention their prayer requests.Are we risking our good healthy by the things we choose to put into our bodies? What do I mean? Eating foods that are just plain unhealthy, is surly to have some effect on our present and future health. I remember when the older men and women in the church would say to the younger, "you need a little meat on those .. more »

UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE – ETHICAL ISSUES IN HEALTH CARE REFORM

Universal health care seems to be a hotly debated topic whenever health care reform in the United States is discussed.?Those who maintain that health is an individual responsibility do not want a system that requires them to contribute tax dollars to support fellow citizens who do not act responsibly in protecting or promoting their own health. They argue that they want the freedom to choose their own physicians and treatments, and suggest that government cannot know what is best for them.? These people argue that preserving the current system with improvements to provide better insurance coverage for citizens who remain uninsured or under insured for their medical care needs is the only reform that is needed.Those who believe health care is an individual right support a universal health care system with the argument that every citizen deserves to have access to the right care at the right time and that .. more »

GETTING YOUR PET’S HEALTH INSURANCE POLICY

In life you can never know what is bound to happen next and for this reason it would be nice if you took up an insurance policy for your pets. This is so because that animal can fall sick and in the end you end up paying some good money yet if you had insured its health the figures would have been minimal.I don't want you to be caught up in this lie that health insurance for pets is the same like that one for human beings. This is very far from the truth. The fact is that when you are insuring your pet you will have to dish out few bucks compared to the health insurance for human beings. Everything for a pet usually costs less, so it will not be a huge burden on you or anything like insuring a child or something.The best pets that deserve the .. more »