Avoiding preventable illnesses is the responsibility of individuals and their families not government

In recent years the debate of who held the

responsibility

to avoid preventable illnesses between individuals and the

government

has gained a lot of traction. The

government

,

in particular

, is always getting the heat when it comes to

this

debate. People regularly seek to blame the

government

for the slightest mistake they made, especially now when the whole world is on a global scale lockdown, people still hold the

government

accountable for their inability to prevent and contain the spread of the viral outbreak, even though the

government

has at least tried to provide some sort of basic countermeasure.

Furthermore

, the

government

should not always be 100% held responsible in avoiding preventable

illness

in society, but rather it comes down to the individual

responsibility

of the people itself to truly avoid preventable

illness

The research from W.H.O (World

Health

Organization) suggests that 6 of the 10 leading factors contributing to the global burden of disease can be attributed to

lifestyle

.

Lifestyle

has played a major role in causing

illness

in the more modern nation, and

lifestyle

is not something that the

government

could directly control because it’s something that comes down to the individual characters and behaviour of the

person

. A thing

such

as unsafe

/

unprotected sex, alcoholism, high cholesterol diet, and usage of tobacco is

also

something

that is

deeply rooted in

lifestyle

, those

such

things are the factors which causes the most common

illness

/

diseases in today's society. Many governments of the world have spent billions to combat obesity, alcoholism, HIV

/

AIDS yet the problem persists.

This

just proves that many people are still irresponsible with their

health

and why individual

responsibility

is key to avoid

this

metra of avoidable illnesses, as even the country

such

as Finland and England with the most developed

health

care system in the world suggest to its people that individual

responsibility

for

health

and well being are

also

important Some people might say that

this

point of view has a flaw because how could someone be held responsible for their

health

when they have mental incompetence, addictive behavior, or perhaps cultural pressure, certainly these people wouldn’t be held accountable right ?. While there is no denying

such

a statement, but it’s only true to some extent.

This

is why an individual can’t be 100% held responsible for their

health

, both

government

and individual people must have the

responsibility

to some degree, but the greater emphasize are put on the individual itself. As for an example, a

government

could provide a plethora of vaccines for various diseases

such

as measles, yellow fever, chickenpox, influenza, etc., these vaccines-able diseases could kill 2.5 million people each year if left untreated base upon W.H.O report from 2012. Now imagine that there is a

person

that refuses to be vaccinated because he

/

she thinks vaccines wouldn’t do anything. It can clearly be seen that individual

responsibility

is

also

needed to avoid preventable

illness

/

diseases, and from the previous example

that is

the

responsibility

of that

person

to vaccinate her

/

himself In summary individual

responsibility

is needed to avoid preventable diseases, but a

person

can’t be held 100% responsible for their

health

since they potentially inhabit some disabilities that prevent them to do so,

hence

why some sort of

government

responsibility

is

also

required to complete the whole cycle. The preventable

illness

in society is commonly caused by

lifestyle

.