Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

Health and Human Rights

What is the relationship between health, human rights, and fulfilling basic needs as explained by Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs?

Every type of need has a place in Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. There are different levels to which each need can be categorized. Level one contains the most important needs, biological and physiological such as air, food, warmth, drink, and sleep. The next level of the pyramid contains all of the safety needs such as protection, security, order, laws, and freedom. The third most important set of needs are the belongingness and love needs like group wrk, family, friends, and relationships. The following level contains types of self esteem needs like achievement, independence, dominance, and responsibility. The leat importnant set of needs are the self-actualization needs like personal potential, self-fulfillment, and peak experiences. To be truly happy, all of your basic needs, health and human rights need to be taken into account and balanced out. Every person needs to have their human rights to feel respected, and have every chance possible to be a healthy person. Based on Maslow’s pyramid, health would be the most important needs within the biological needs category, and human rights would be the second most important because it is in the next section up inside the “safety needs” area. All of your basic needs must be fulfilled to the fullest extent to be happy because all of these needs added up together makes a good personality and makes a good outlook and attitude. When every part of the pyramid and needs are completed, then the person will become satisfied because everything that they want and need is fulfilled. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs helps us to look at the bigger picture of what our basic needs are, and how we can achieve them.