Question

How can knowing the history of disease help us to understand (a) current health problems and (b) how health patterns might change the future

Answer 1

Knowing about the history of either our familial diseases that run in our genes or the history of any kind of disease that has occured to people in the past is very much important for us as it provides various informations which is required for us to either prevent it or treat it entirely.

1. Knowing about the history of any disease helps us to understand the condition of the current health problems that maybe spreading in any part of the area.

It is very important to know about the family history for an individual to understand the extent of the risk of getting any kind of disease which might run in the family of that person. It can lead to various chronic and life threatening diseases including heart disease, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, stroke or cancer. Knowing it is will help us to identify our genetic fault and help us to be more careful with our health status. The high chances of increasing risk of getting the familial diseases are:

- disease occurs at an early stage than expected

- disease occurs in more than one of our close relatives

- disease which will affect only certain type of gender

- combinations of diseases in our family etc are the major problems that can increase the risk in the family.

Alos if the disease that has spread in any part of the area the knowledge about the history of the disease will also help in a more better way.

- it will help us to become a master of our present which will be helped by the understanding of our past.

- it will help us to understand that many communicable diseases in past have been eradicated in the present and many are controlled hence the techniques should be learnt inorder to make it a relevance to the present and future controls of the same diseases and can be helped by planning in a better way than in past.

- with our understanding of the early days diseases it has made an attempt to change in our behaviours, lifestyles, diets etc which were harmful to their health's and long term health.

- it will help us to save our time from diagnosis and planning over a condition as it will show us the signs and symptoms clearly regarding the particular diseases.

- with past experiences of a particular condition or dealing with the life threatening condition will also help in using the particular drugs in emergency and save the patient without spending their most valuable period of their life.

2. Health patterns might change the future. As it is known that the people who are living in the present tend to understand their health by looking at the past and try to improve it. It is very necessary for us to become healthy that we should see what has our past generations done inorder to get these many diseases and should try to unfollow or reject those habits. We now are looking at our previous generations and we are trying to avoid unhealthy lifestyle, food, do more of healthy exercises etc inorder to reduce the risk of getting chronic diseases likewise our future generations will also tend to follow our path and look over their previous generations in what to be done and to be avoided in order to prevent getting more diseases.

In terms of preventing any diseases or promoting good health , the techniques or medications or machines that has been used now and its success will make them understand about the use of different devices in the healthcare industry and also if the new innovations are required or not. They will follow the preventive methods identified by the pat generations and the medications identified by them etc.