Health and Lifestyle Awareness during Covid – 19 Pandemic

Abstract

Covid-19 has become a global pandemic infecting the people all over the world and leading to 2 million deaths by the end of year 2021. During the outbreak of Covid – 19, it has brought unprecedented challenges and fear among the people. Though many people decently followed the guidelines given by government for preventive measures viz. social distancing, wearing masks, sanitization and hygiene, boosting Immune system etc., covid seems to affect the lives of them and posed serious health issues. Recent studies indicated that older adults and those with systemic comorbidities (e.g. cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes, hypertension) are more vulnerable to serious complications and death caused by COVID-19 infection. Given that elderly is also more prone to having these health comorbidities, the mortality risk of COVID-19 would be higher in elderly population than middle-aged or younger individuals. All the health workers working all over the world from different field of specialization came forward with their best possible inputs and guidelines. Different medications, lifestyle choices, foods, social awareness programs were made accessible. These all efforts made the fight less threating and saved many lives but none of them seems to work efficiently in giving absolute results. Looking at the health of people in Post corona phase, there seems to influence many factors like Type of medication used for the treatment of infection (Allopathy/Indigenous system of medicines), Food habits, Exercise, Yoga or Physical movement, Sleeping schedule, Addiction, Mental status, Social Connections, stress management etc in making the overall health of a person. Research shows that most of the chronic diseases (Viz. Diabetes, Hypertension, Cancer etc.) are having the same underlying mechanisms like Chronic Inflammation, changes in immune functions, oxidative stress, angiogenesis, telomere length which are the direct functions of diet, sleep, addiction, mental health and stress conditions of a person. Many people having same diseased condition and followed different systems of medications and treatment shows different symptoms in post covid – 19 phase. At the same time, Many patients having followed the same regiment for the covid-19 treatment shows different health levels due to the above listed lifestyle factors. The objective of current work is aiming to explore and compare the life, especially health level in post corona phase of the patient treated with Indigenous system (Ayurvedic, Homeopathy, Siddha, Unani etc.) and Allopathy/Modern system of Medicines as well as different lifestyle elements affecting the overall health. The outcomes will show the impact of types of medicines and other lifestyle factors influencing overall health of a person in a long term.