HEALTH
EDUCATION
INTRODUCTION
Health
implies a sufficient reserve of physical strength and ability to endurance as
well as mental equilibrium to meet the demands of life. And gain it has been said “If wealth is lost
nothing is lost, if health is lost everything is lost”. Health is a condition
of being “safe and sound”.
DEFINITION
1.
Who defines
that health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well being not merely
the absence of disease or illness or deformity.
2.
Health
education defines as it is concerned with changes in knowledge feeling and
behavior of pupil.
PERSONAL
HYGIENE
Personal hygiene may
be defined as a branch of hygiene which concern itself with the adjustment
which the individual must take to improve, preserve health of his body and
mind. Personal hygiene includes the following elements:
i.
Living
conditions
ii.
Cleanliness
(Care for skin, teeth, ears, eyes & hair )
COMMUNITY
HEALTH PROGRAMMES
i.
Sanitation and
cleanliness
ii.
Planed living
and proper housing
iii.
Nutritional
food and comfortable dress
iv.
Standard of
living
v.
Mass cleanliness
campaign
vi.
Pond, well,
drinking water facilities
CONCLUSION
Health education is
any combination of learning experiences designed to help individuals and
communities to improve their health by increasing their knowledge or
influencing their attitudes.
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