Health: Whose Responsibility Is It? The first International Conference on Health Promotion, meeting in Ottawa on the 21st day of November 1986, presented their charter for action to achieve Health for All by the year 2000 and beyond. The charter stated that ‘health promotion’ is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and…
Category Archives: Mental Wellbeing
Suicide Why are we not taking this issue seriously? Suicide is a major happening particularly in Sri Lanka. In the mid-nineties Sri Lanka had a dreadful record showing a stand of “World’s No. 1 suicide rate”. At that time over forty people died out of every 100,000 within a year. The cause of death was…
Suicide: Have we not still taken the bull by the horns? Suicide is a major problem in Sri Lanka. In mid-nineties Sri Lanka had the world’s no. 1 suicide rate. At that time over forty people died out of every 100,000 within a year due to suicide. That is over 8,000 people per year. That…
මොකද්ද මේ මනෝ සෞඛ්යය? මනෝ සෞඛ්යය කියන්නේ එක්තරා විදියකට හිතේ සතුටයි. ලෝක සෞඛ්ය සංවිධානයේ අර්ථ දැක්වීම අනුව මානසික රෝගයක් තියෙන කෙනෙකුට මනෝ සෞඛ්යය අහිමියි. ඒක ඇත්තක්දැයි අප නැවත සිතා බැලිය යුතුයි. ඒ අනුව අපි අළුත් විදියකට මනෝ සෞඛ්යය දෙස බලමු. මනෝ රෝගයක් හෙවත් මානසික ලෙඩක් ඇති විට සාමාන්යයෙන් අපට ඒක කරදරයක් බව සැබැයි, හරියට ඕනෑම…
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