BACHELOR OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT WITH HONOURS

(BOSHM)

SEPTEMBER 2019

MPU3313_V2

HEALTH AND WELLNESS 2

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LEARNING CENTRE : Negeri Sembilan Learning Centre

 CONTENTS LIST

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1 Question 1 2-4

2 Question 2 5-7

3 Reflective Journal 8-9

4 References for Question 1 & 2 10

5 References for Reflective Journal 10

QUESTION 1

Life nowadays has turned out to be tumultuous to the point that it's simple for us to
become involved with simply attempting to "endure" every day. By "enduring" we're not

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alluding to ensuring we have something to eat and drink every day; "enduring" has turned out
to be a great deal more confused than that. The profound component of health can be the
most close to home bit of the riddle when attempting to put every one of the eight elements of
health together. At the point when these objectives are met, it places agreement in one's life,
and the others they encircle themselves with. All in all, what would you be able to do to
improve your profound health? It's ideal to make sense of what strategies work for you.
So, here are some simple self-improvement habits that you can do each day to enrich
yourself in three major areas of your life. In a spiritual self-improvement way, start your day
by thinking about one good thing you can do for the day. For instance, it doesn't require a
great deal of exertion at all to isolate refuse with the goal that whatever can be reused can be
reused and not add to the world's developing waste administration issue. For the most part,
it's simply an issue of choosing to do great, and that is the thing that building up the
propensity for distinguishing a decent deed to do every day fosters. Explore your
otherworldly center. You are essentially asking yourself inquiries about the individual you
are and your significance. Ask yourself: Who am I? What is my motivation? What do I
esteem most? These inquiries will lead you down a street where you will contemplate
yourself and enable you to see things about yourself that will enable you to accomplish
satisfaction. Search for more profound implications. Searching for more profound
implications throughout your life and dissecting happening examples will enable you to see
that you have command over your predetermination in. Following a monotonous day or a
critical occasion, you may feel confounded and not have the option to comprehend your
sentiments. By recording your musings, you might have the option to think clearer and push
ahead.
End your day by recording one thing you were grateful for. Regularly, the sentiment
of being unsatisfied with what you have is achieved by not understanding how significant the
things throughout your life as of now are. On the off chance that you make it a propensity to
record one thing you're appreciative for every day, at that specific minute when you're feeling
despondent or frustrated, looking through your "thankful rundown" will elevate you and keep
you decidedly headed straight toward energy and further personal growth.
In a mentally self-improvement way, tell somebody that they're doing great. There's
not really anything that contrasts and sharing inspiration and receiving your own benefits
from doing as such. What's more, it doesn't need to be enormous achievements. Indeed,
acknowledging easily overlooked details like a decent dinner readied or a work area perfectly
masterminded goes far in making somebody feel better and causing you to acknowledge how
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simple it is for you to contribute something positive to the world. Be that as it may, they don't
need to devour you and assume control over your state of mind for the entire day. Often, the
straightforward demonstration of grinning, notwithstanding compelling yourself to grin,
carries positive contemplations to the surface and enables you to return to your wonderful and
most gainful you.
When you start seeing things throughout your life in a positive way, you will wind up
speculation contrastingly and refocusing your brain to an upbeat, solid spot. When you wipe
out antagonism and re-outline how you think about specific things and circumstances, you'll
see yourself being progressively loose. While dealing with your time and every day
undertakings can be hard, it is vital to give time to interfacing with yourself. Fitting
intercession and unwinding into your way of life will free your brain and cultivate a more
grounded association with your profound health.
From physical self-improvement way, do a little obstruction workout. Obstruction
exercise is any physical action that includes a lot of effort by your muscles. While
cardiovascular activities like strolling are surely gainful to the health, opposition works out,
even straightforward ones, for example, scaling the stairs or doing push-ups against a divider,
have the additional advantage of firming up your muscles and boosting your digestion all
through the remainder of the day — absolutely profiting your health and even your
appearance. Be that as it may, unquestionably, you have your own preferred products of the
soil, so why not try to utilize them to supplant the unfortunate nourishments in your eating
routine?
The psyche and the body are inherently connected. When you improve your physical
health, you'll consequently encounter more noteworthy mental and passionate prosperity.
Physical movement additionally discharges endorphins, ground-breaking synthetic
compounds that lift your state of mind and give included vitality. Customary exercise or
action can majorly affect mental and passionate medical issues, calm pressure, improve
memory, and help you to rest better.
Health is Wealth". It is without a doubt yet appears as though our age has overlooked
it. The time has come to back off and investigate the manner in which you are living and
treating your body. Assume responsibility for your life and change to sound propensities
while there is still time. Since we realize how to carry on with a solid way of life and its
various points of interest; no time ought to be saved and we should without a moment's delay
start another sound and cheerful life free from infections and stresses. On the off chance that

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you are as of now following a sound way of life, at that point you ought to rouse others to
adjust a way of life as your and see the changes.

QUESTION 2

Obesity is a perplexing medical problem to address. Obesity results from a blend of

causes and contributing components, including individual factors. Practices can incorporate

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dietary examples, physical movement, dormancy, drug use, and different exposures. Extra
contributing elements in our general public incorporate the nourishment and physical
movement condition, training and abilities, and nourishment advertising and advancement.
Obesity is a genuine concern since it is related with more unfortunate emotional wellness
results, decreased personal satisfaction, and the main sources of death in the U.S. In 2016, an
expected 41 million kids younger than 5 years were overweight or stout. When considered a
high-salary nation issue, overweight and obesity are presently on the ascent in low-and center
pay nations, especially in urban settings. Almost 50% of the kids under 5 who were
overweight or corpulent in 2016 lived in Asia. More than 340 million youngsters and youths
matured 5-19 were overweight or fat in 2016. Obesity has a far-going negative impact on
health. Every year obesity-related conditions cost more than 150 billion dollars and cause an
expected 300,000 unexpected losses in the US.
Some consequences of obesity and overweight to the individual are hypertension.
Additional fat tissue in the body needs oxygen and supplements so as to live, which requires
the veins to course more blood to the fat tissue. Additional coursing blood likewise implies
more weight on the supply route dividers. Also, add-on weight can raise the pulse and
diminish the body's capacity to ship blood through the vessels. Then obesity is the significant
reason for sort 2 diabetes. This sort of diabetes more often than not starts in adulthood at the
same time, is presently really happening in youngsters. At the point when obesity causes
insulin obstruction, the glucose winds up raised.
Moreover, obesity leads to some Coronary illness for example, Atherosclerosis
(solidifying of the conduits) is available multiple times all the more frequently in hefty
individuals. Coronary corridor ailment is additionally progressively common since greasy
stores develop in conduits that supply the heart. Limited supply routes and decreased blood
stream to the heart can cause Chest Torment (Angina) or a coronary failure. Blood clusters
can likewise frame in limited courses and cause a stroke. Then some joint issues including
Osteoarthritis. Obesity can influence the knees and hips due to the pressure put on the joints
by additional weight. Joint substitution medical procedure, while regularly performed on
harmed joints, that the counterfeit joint has a higher danger of slackening and bringing on
additional harm.
The National Cholesterol Education Program has recognized metabolic disorder as a
perplexing danger factor for cardiovascular sickness. Metabolic disorder comprises of six
noteworthy parts: stomach obesity, raised blood cholesterol, raised circulatory strain, insulin
opposition with or without glucose narrow mindedness, height of certain blood segments that
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demonstrate irritation, and rise of certain thickening components in the blood. In a culture
where regularly the perfect of physical appeal is to be excessively meagre. Overweight and
fat people are frequently accused for their condition and might be viewed as lethargic or frail
willed. It isn't phenomenal for overweight or large conditions to bring about people having
lower livelihoods or having less or no sentimental connections. Dissatisfaction with
overweight people communicated by certain people may advance to predisposition,
segregation, and even torment.
Gradually turning into a worldwide health pestilence, the commonness of obesity has
risen radically in the course of recent decades. The World Health Organization characterizes
obesity as an irregular or inordinate fat aggregation with a weight record more prominent or
equivalent to 30. Weight-and obesity-related medical issues incorporate coronary illness,
hypertension, stroke, and diabetes, to give some examples. An ongoing report evaluates that
2.1 billion individuals, almost 30% of the total populace, are corpulent or overweight. The
worldwide medical issue is never again restricted to cutting edge nations. As rising
economies keep on industrializing, a resulting increment in salary has prompted high caloric
admission. In examination, there are 805 million undernourished individuals on the planet
and generally 2.5 occasions more noteworthy commonness of overweight and large
individuals. As indicated by the WHO, somewhere in the range of 1980 and 2014, the
recurrence of obesity overall dramatically increased. In general, in 2014, 38% of men and
40% of ladies matured 18 years or more established were viewed as overweight. The same
number of might associate, the most noteworthy extent of the stout populace lives in the
United States. Nations with developing economies like China and India have the most
elevated number of fat and overweight people. Obesity is in charge of 5% of deaths and is
connected to a bigger number of deaths worldwide than being underweight. As the pandemic
keeps on rising, inquire about demonstrates that obesity can abbreviate future by eight years.
The ascend in weight-and obesity-related issues has cost billions of individuals their health as
well as conveys noteworthy expenses to the economy. It is evaluated that obesity, alongside
smoking and furnished viciousness, is one of the main three social weights produced by
people. At its present pace, obesity is assessed to influence practically 50% of the world's
grown-up populace by 2030.
Notwithstanding immediate costs reflected in human services, circuitous expenses
related with obesity incorporate diminished work profitability, high laborer’s pay claims, and
lower income. The scourge is related with lower profitability, costing businesses an extra
$506 per laborer because of an expansion in days off and therapeutic cases. These additional
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expenses are reflected in laborer’s pay rates, as it is evaluated that people with a BMI of 40 or
more prominent are probably going to win 5% not exactly their partners at an ordinary
weight. However, presently human services suppliers are likewise including an entire
extraordinary, progressively emotional measure how individuals feel about their condition
and generally speaking prosperity. They're pushing for projects where medical caretakers or
prepared instructors meet with individuals and pose individual inquiries like: Is your
condition restraining your life? Is it making you less upbeat? Does it make it difficult to adapt
every day? Individuals are bound to deal with their condition appropriately when they have
increasingly open, individual objectives, such as having the option to accomplish more at
work or stay aware of their children, rather than concentrating just on nearly dynamic targets
like glucose levels. Various investigations demonstrate that when individuals have a higher
feeling of prosperity, they have less hospitalizations and crisis room visits, miss less long
stretches of work and utilize less prescription. They're likewise progressively beneficial at
work and increasingly occupied with the network.
"Personal satisfaction happens to be the component that is most significant in
inspiring individuals to manage a sickness," says Noreen Clark, executive of the Center for
Managing Chronic Disease at the University of Michigan. Focusing on prosperity may appear
to be a fundamental thought, yet it is a takeoff from the conventional way to deal with general
health, particularly with regards to constant malady sufferers. Many get brief checkups with a
specialist a couple of times each year, and there isn't the ideal opportunity for much past
getting lab tests, a medicine and a few headings to pursue.
Taken together, unmistakably obesity is a worldwide emergency that as of now
contacts everybody in some way. Also, this acknowledgment ought to be a source of
inspiration, in light of the fact that there is uplifting news in the midst of the awful: Obesity is
preventable. We can invert the patterns that prompted the present pestilence by making
changes in open approaches and practices, with the goal that sound nourishment and
movement decisions are simple decisions, for all.

REFLECTIVE JOURNAL

It would be inconceivable for me to decide Asia as a 'sound' or 'undesirable' continent

without making a few speculations. So far as that is concerned, I am not discussing each
Asian individual when I answer the principle question of 'Is Malaysia solid?' with no.
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 We are given insights, for example, those from the Malaysia Health overview, which
guarantee that from an example of 4,894 grown-ups, 74% of them portray their health as
being 'great' or 'excellent', with just 8% depicting their health as terrible or exceptionally
awful. From the example of 1,839 youngsters, 95% of them portrayed their health as 'great' or
'generally excellent'. There are numerous individuals in the examples taken who really will
live sound ways of life, yet it could be contended that there will likewise be numerous who
either don't comprehend the importance of a solid way of life, or who can't admit to
themselves or others that the manner in which they are experiencing their lives can't be
classed as sound.
Taking a gander at eating routine, just 22% of grown-ups in 2013 said that they ate
the suggested 5 segments of foods grown from the ground a day, with kids eating overall 2.7
bits every day. An unfortunate eating regimen can immensely affect a people prosperity as it
can prompt coronary illness, nutrient inadequacies, and obesity, which would itself be able to
prompt different further medical issues. Today we live in a period in which no one has time!
So prepared suppers, containers of sauce and inexpensive food are consistently the simple
alternative. Be that as it may, a large number of these contain shrouded fixings, for example,
sodium, which, when eaten unnecessarily, can prompt kidney issues, hypertension, heart
issue, and frail bones.
Another reason for obesity is absence of activity. 64% of grown-ups in the example
professed to meet the suggested week by week practice rules. We could state that with the
greater part of the nation arriving at these rules, Malaysia is a for the most part dynamic
nation. From individual experience, I accept that with the development of online networking
as the years progressed, individuals are starting to advance increasingly solid and dynamic
ways of life through this. As wellness masters become good examples for some and as
individuals post photos of the changes they have experienced through sound eating regimen
and exercise, the ages of web clients are being roused.
Just as these reasons for weakness, I feel it is imperative to make reference to liquor
utilization and smoking. In spite of the fact that, obviously regardless of the known risks of
lung malignant growth, smoking still exists in Malaysia and until this isn't the situation, it
will add to our high death rates and poor general health. What's more, our way of life has
broadly acknowledged that the individuals of today drink to get alcoholic. Drinking
inordinate measures of liquor not just can possibly harm the liver yet can likewise impact
individuals rationally.

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 Psychological well-being has an immense impact in deciding the general strength of
Malaysia. With around one out of ten grown-ups having had at least two manifestations of
misery, 5% saying that they had endeavored to end their lives in any event once. Malaysia
may not be the least, yet it isn't the most, rationally sound nation it could be.
Notwithstanding, support for this is on the ascent and I would guarantee that inside my life-
time I have seen an expansion in assistance accessible just as a decline in shame against
emotional well-being issues.
In this way, it is reasonable for infer that regardless of the high claims of good health
in Malaysia, the death rate is unreasonably high and the NHS is excessively extended for
these cases to be substantial. Such a large number of eating regimens comprise of an
excessive amount of sugar and salt and insufficient nutrients and minerals. Albeit numerous
individuals guarantee to meet the rules of week after week work out, there are as yet a
gathering which remains not doing what's necessary exercise. Obesity, smoking and liquor
misuse stay as gigantic issues, putting expanding weight on the NHS to give satisfactory
social insurance.
While emotional health issues might be all the more generally upheld, they are
frequently activated by the pressure that our general public places on individuals. Implying
that Malaysia, plainly, has a significant long approach to getting to be 'solid'.

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ATTACHMENT

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