Know Your Health Status by Master Health Checkup

As quoted ‘Health is Wealth’ having a healthy body helps to live a better and happy life. A healthy body is achieved through lifestyle modifications, which includes nutritious diet, exercise and routine health checkups. 

This old adage “prevention is better than cure” is relevant in Urban India than ever before, with environmental factors like lifestyle, family history and stress playing adverse impact on the wellness of our body.

Master Health checkup help to unearth a latent disease, or prevent its manifestation by modifying the risk factors. The potential risks of predisposed silent killers like cardiac diseases, diabetes, hypertension, and others can be managed, if diagnosed early. With an increasing number of lifestyle related diseases, and out of pocket expenses, it is great initiative from healthcare sector to come up with this idea preventive health check-up packages at an affordable rate.

Essentials of Master health checkup packages:

Most of the times, medical health check-up are broad in their approach, and examines multiple organ systems simultaneously to ascertain, whether an individual is healthy or not. It must also be taken care to avoid unnecessary screening examinations. This master health check up packages must ensure a net benefit from screening in order to efficiently deliver preventive services.These routine health check-ups can be customized depending on the basis of:

1. At-risk groups
2. Age
3. Gender
4. Occupation
5. Vaccination review

And as mandatory these medical health check fulfills minimum quality assurance standards at a reasonable cost which covers full body checkup. Current guidelines have proposed preventive health check-up and early detection approach for various disease conditions in the Indian context, which are:

• Cardiovascular disease
• Hypertension
• Dyslipedemia
• Screening for Type 2 diabetes mellitus
• Treadmill stress test
• Screening for cancer
• Breast cancer with clinical breast examination
• Cervical cancer with pap smear
• Prostate cancer

So, what are you waiting for, take control of your health and life through regular health checkup as early detection allows diagnosis, management and cure is possible. When everything is taken care of, our overall wellness is enhanced, leading us to live better every day and pursue aspirations.