What is Health Screening?

A general check-up is a visit to your doctor where a comprehensive medical history is taken, a detailed examination performed, followed by the necessary laboratory tests taken. Doing this will help your doctor establish any medical risks that you might have. The main aim of a check-up is to make sure that your body systems are functioning well and to detect early signs and symptoms of disease.

Most medical doctors will advise that you go for a general check-up at least once a year. This does however depend on your age, gender, risk factors, family health history and your health status.

Why Should I Go For Regular Health Screening?

Annual health screening helps to identify diseases which are sub-clinical.

Going for regular medical check-ups should be at the top of your priority list. Not only can it detect illnesses and disease early on, it can prevent them from occurring in the first place.

Health and lifestyle measures can then be put in place which can make significant impact on your health and wellbeing.

What Is Preventive Health Care?

Many of us live fast-paced lives. We run around our families, spend endless hours at the office, and stress more than we should. Unless we are ill, it has become common to neglect and even compromise our health.

Far too often, the approach to healthcare is responsive in nature where the focus is on treating illness, disease, or injury when it has already occurred, and problems/ complications have set in.

In order to prevent disease starting in the first place, the focus needs to shift from one which is responsive to one which is proactive and preventive.
Preventative medicine is exactly as the name suggests: it aims to prevent a disease or illness before it happens.

The ideology behind preventive medicine focuses on protecting, promoting, and maintaining health and well-being.

What Are The Leading Causes Of Death Globally?

Non-communicable diseases make up 7 of the world’s top 10 causes of death, according to WHO’s 2019 Global Health Estimates. This is an increase from 4 of the 10 leading causes in 2000. The new data cover the period from 2000 to 2019 inclusive.

These seven causes account for 80% of the top 10 causes of death.

What are non-communicable chronic diseases?

A non-communicable disease, or NCD, is a medical condition or disease which by definition is non-infectious and cannot be passed from person to person, however I am mentioning it as it is typically caused by unhealthy lifestyles. They are the leading cause of death worldwide and present a huge threat to health and development, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.

According to the World Health Organization, the four main types of non-communicable diseases are cardiovascular diseases (like heart attacks and stroke), cancer, chronic respiratory diseases (such as chronic obstructed pulmonary disease and asthma) and diabetes.

If you have diabetes, you’re twice as likely to have heart disease or a stroke than someone who doesn’t have diabetes—and at a younger age.