Avoiding preventable illness is the responsibility of individuals and their families, not governments. Do you agree?

Many argued that avoiding a preventable illness is the duty of each individual or their family. But is that just enough to do? I cannot agree with

this

opinion and I think the one that should do

that is

the governments. Because the governments have an obligation, duty, and have control over the best way how to avoid them. Avoiding preventable ill-

health

is one of the concerns of Public

health

. Public

health

itself is “the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting

health

through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals” (Winslow, 1920).

Then

, I believe that the

government

is the main actor to avoid preventable illness. The

first

reason why is because the authority has regulations on human rights especially in

health

. As we know that all humans have human rights, and those human rights become the politics’ obligation to protect it. So, to solve that, the regime made

Health

policy. The United Nations` World

Health

Organization (WHO) defines

health

policy refers to choices, strategy, and activities that are embraced to achieve specific

health

care goals in a society. For reaching that goal the authority in control of setting and enforcing standards to avoid preventable ill

health

in public. To do the standardization, the ministry must ensure that the environment occupied by the residents is safe and healthy. As,

for example

, the availability of clean water, nutritious food, sanitation like sewers and waste processing, etc. If the occupied environment is not worthy to be occupied, the community effort to living healthier, and prevention of the disease will not be optimal or can’t run well.

Secondly

, a lack of concern for public

health

education from the state can make a big impact on the

health

quality in a country. It can be proved that a country whose

government

educates about

health

from child or elementary school has a healthy level is higher than the country that cares not about

health

education.

Therefore

, the lifestyle will be different because the lifestyle is already a habit.

Then

the good habit will give impact by increasing public awareness of

health

. The

government

it should be always persuaded the public to live healthily. Not only when there is a case arise like a pandemic,

then

governments just to take action encourages healthy living. Culture shock will be happening, people are hard to follow instructions from the

government

because it’s not part of the habit. The areas of public

health

responsibility include guaranteeing a satisfactory

health

infrastructure, advancing healthy communities, and healthy behaviours, protecting against environmental

health

hazards. In the end, I will conclude that avoiding preventable illness, it’s

government

duty, not for individuals or their families. Governments actually have full responsibility and concern about preventable ill

health

and healthy life.