BASIC NEEDS OF AN INDIVIDUAL

There are certain basic needs which every individual must fulfill before he can function effectively; this needs categorized into two;

The biological needs

The social needs

The American psychologist called Abraham Maslow and some other known scholar

Identify the following need for every human being

Hunger needs

Shelter

Security

Love

Self conceptualization

Self actualization

  HUNGER : every individual become hungry and need to be satisfied by taken some food, if hunger need is not favorably meet an individual cannot perform effectively. An adage says (a hungry man is an angry man). Also the body needs food in order to release energy to carry the activities of life. If hunger exists, the health of an individual becomes affected.

 SHELTER: every individual needs a home to live, this  home have some influences on his health, if the house is a poor home the person cannot live successfully, hence the person faces problem which will affect his normal health and vice-versa

 SECURITY: in order to function efficiently, every individual needs one form of security or the other. If this is not met, the individual becomes in efficient and tense to totally depend on others. Security could be in form of job, marriage and also a nation must be free from war and crisis.

LOVE: we all want love and also to beloved. A person who cannot love may live in isolation which is identification of poor health and vice-versa.

SELF CONCEPTUALIZATION: any normal human being will always try to feel important among others. We always want other to accept and respect us. So you should also accept and respect others. An individual who cannot receive recognition from others feel deficient and inferior and cannot live comfortably within himself.
SELF ACTUALIZATION: this is the last need which an individual want to satisfy. At old age, an individual will like to sit down and have a retrospective assessment of life achievement. An individual who has no reasonable thing to look after will feel bad; this goes a long way to affect his or her health.

In conclusion, Maslow et al feels that if one need is favorably satisfied, all others become affected. Through the satisfaction of one of this need leads to the satisfaction of others.

                                             This article was contributed to obbyopsy.blogspot.com by malumi obedience

                                                 malumi obedience is a resource person, an astute writer and a health officer