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Some people say that it is a good idea to make periodic medical check ups compulsory for all adults so that the health status of a State can be better kept, whereas some others say maintaining health status is more personal than institutional.

• Look at both the views and say what you feel about social health?

It is a fact that health status involves several factors. Periodic medical check up is one of them. However, coming to compulsory medical check up, what I feel is that keeping health status is more a personal responsibility than institutional.

Let me prove that compulsory medical check for adults cannot do much to the general health status of a populace. Undergoing medical check ups is one thing and going through a medical regime subsequent to such check ups is something different.

For example, in a national perspective, we cannot expect the whole adult population to be strictly following whatever is medically advised. Social status, per capita income, gender difference, nature of employment, to mention a few, of people may vary and not many can stick to the instructions given after every check up. 

On the other hand, if people take it as a point that being healthy is something great and, thereby, able to understand that prevention is better than cure, they will be able to keep their health status all by themselves. This much better carried in an individual perspective than in any other dimension.

Let me go for an example. Rightly informed people will eat right, work out well, stay away from hazardous habits, go for periodic check ups and identify health risks in time, and they will invite medication whenever needed. This will lead to better health status, of course.

Therefore, looking at both the views, I find it right to opine that social health a population is to be determined more by personal efforts than by institutional involvement. Compulsory medical checkup is fine, but it is just fine for the sake of checkup.

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