Life after War: The Mental, Physical, and Social Health Effects

From the Roman gladiator to the revolutionary war of the day, war was the focus of our society from the beginning. Although some may argue that war is an important part in maintaining our luxury lifestyle and building homeland security, "War is a necessity of basic survival and all Human Rights and Values ​​Irreversible material and relative loss, physical fatigue, psychological collapse, and invalidation of all daily living "(Flogel and Lauc).

There is a close relationship between mental health and physical health, but little is known about the way from one to the other. Using the choice of lifestyle and social capital, we analyze the influence of past mental health on the current physical health and the influence of past physical health on current mental health in the framework of mediation. In the UK Vertical Aging Study Six Waves (2002 - 2012), we used data of 10,693 people over the age of 50. Mental health is measured by the physical health of epidemiological research depression scales (CES) and daily living activities (ADL). We find that these two forms of health have serious direct and indirect effects and indirect effects are associated with 10% of mental health effects on mental health in the past and mental health in the past Explain 8% of the effect on. Physical activity is the biggest factor of indirect impact.

Mental and physical health is fundamentally related. There is a lot of relationship between mental health and chronic physical condition which greatly influences the quality of people's lives, the necessity of services by health care and other public funds, and the impact on society. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health as a complete physical, mental and social well-being as well as not having sickness and weakness. WHO stated that "there is no health without mental health." 1

Health is a difficult concept to define. The World Health Organization defines health as the absence of illness, but health belongs to the following areas: physical health, mental health and social health. This is called a healthy biological psychosocial model and we will continue to return to it through the series. Let's start with the basics. Insufficient sleep and exercise will adversely affect your overall health. Your circadian rhythm (agility when you are asleep, the alertness when you are awake) and your normal function of your body will be disturbed. You may notice that your energy level is gradually declining, even "a sense of the weather". This alone makes you feel uncomfortable, annoying and difficult to bypass. You may capture people's excessive problems (usually not affecting you as well). It puts pressure on many of your personal and professional relationships.