The importance of a Periodic Health CHECK-UP

Thanks to the advancements of modern medicine, people around the world are living much longer lives.  But now the goal of medicine is not just to improve the longevity oflife but its quality as well.

Just like investing in a retirement fund, it is extremely important to invest in your health today in order to enjoy a healthy and productive life in your later years.  Of course, unexpected circumstances is part of life and are often unavoidable.  Sometimes sudden accidents and illnesses can destroy our ambitions and seriously reduce our quality of life.

For this reason, it is extremely important for us to do everything in our means to mitigate the risks of the unknown. By educating ourselves as much as we can about our health and taking the proper measures to take care of our bodies, we can greatly increase our chances of avoiding or at least correcting and managing health problems as soon as they begin to surface.

Therefore, by investing in tomorrow today, we can transform the unknown and unexpected into the known and managed. 

So how does one get to know more about the inner-workings of his or her own body?  Without doubt, the best tool we have for doing this is the periodic health check up.  With the growing appreciation of the importance of early-detection and diagnosis of illness, the periodic check up has become a central part of primary prevention health care.

The clinical and laboratory examinations performed in a check-up provide health information which, when analyzed from an epidemiological view, can be invaluable in predicting “unforeseen” health events such as heart attacks, strokes, cancer and other health complications that can reduce the quality and length of our lives.

The periodic check up also tells us what we our doing wrong with our bodies.  Once these unhealthy lifestyle habits and other risk factors are identified, the check up experience can become the launching point of a drastic lifestyle transformation and improvement.

So the check-up is much more than just a simple series of clinical tests; it is a rare opportunity for you to learn more about your own body and gain the inspiration to improve your health and quality of life.

Certainly, there is no shortage of studies demonstrating the importance of preventive health.  You do not hear about it often, however, for the simple reason that there is no debate that prevention is both more effective and less costly than treatment.  Indeed, a periodic checkup not only significantly improves your long-term health quality but also greatly reduces your long term health care expenses. 

With sound health, we are capable of fully enjoying the company of our friends and family as well as achieve our career and personal goals.  The check up is truly a powerful aid for us to live longer, healthier and happier lives.

Dr. Antonio Carlos Worms Till
Diretor do Vita Check-up Center e da Clicor