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1. Concept of Health
  • 1.1 What is health?
  • 1.2 Overlap of the three aspects of health
  • 1.3 Overlap of the three aspects of health
  • 1.4 From health to disease
  • 1.5 How do diseases reach us?
  • 1.6 Preventing ourselves from diseases
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    What is health?

    ‘Health’ is a very familiar word to all of us. We hear about healthy habits from our parents and teachers, we read about how to stay healthy in books.There are so many things we watch on the     television which also tell us about what is good for our health and what is not good for our health.

    What are the things that come to your mind when you think about a healthy person?
    Discuss and write all the things that you would associate with a healthy person.

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    Now you have a list of things which indicate that a person is healthy. We can call these “our health indicators”.
     

    An organization named WHO (World Health Organization) also came up with pointers to define health. After studying various situations they defined health as :

     

    “ A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."

     
     
                                                             physical

                                                                                              PHYSICAL HEALTH 

                                 social                                       mental

     

                                  MENTAL HEALTH                                             SOCIAL HEALTH

     

    In simpler words it means that health is not only the absence of any disease. It is the state where our body is able to do the day to day work properly (physical health), we are able to understand our strengths, we can cope with the normal tensions of life (mental health), our surroundings are clean and hygienic, we have friendly interactions with family, friends and neighbours and we have concern for other people around us (social health).

    Can you use the indicators that you have listed and classify them as indicators for Physical health, Mental health and Social health?
    [Contributed by administrator on 14. März 2018 19:57:55]


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