Introduction To Health Education:
a)Defination of health
The World Health Organaization(WHO) has defined health as "a state of physical,mental,and social well being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity".This defination emphasizes that a healthy person must be physically fit,mentally alert and socially adaptable which help to maintain his/her quality of life in his/her society.Health of individuals differs from each other.An individual may feel better in one aspect he/she may feel worse in the other aspect of health.Health is multidimensional.It cannot be described in a single word or in a phrase.Some of the charatcer of a healthy person are cheerfulness,a good appetite,sound sleep,free from diseases,free from internal conflicts,well adjusted,self control,self disciplined,sense of cooperative motive etc.

Need And Importance Of Health Education

We must be aware of our health;otherwise we have to face many health problems.If we go through the health profile of the world,lack of health education is the major factor for creating a problems.If we provide health education to the community,society,healthy attitudes and behaviours can be developed.The rate of some diseases like diarrhoea,cholera,typhoid,tuberculosis has affected the public health very much badly especiall in the asian country and list developed countrys of the world.Health education teaches us how these diseases can be prevented as well as treated properly.Therefore the importance of health education is increasing day by day.Change can only be possible through developing the level of awareness.Health educaion is one important factor to decrese the rate of many diseases in the world.

Introduction To Reproductive Health

To attain a good health is every body's basic right.A person must be healthy from all aspects including reproductive health point of view.Lack of knowledge on reproductive health adversely affects the total health of an individual.Therefore,people especially must be made aware of all these aspects.Reproductive and sexual health is an educational experience aimed at biological,psychological,socio-cultural and reproductive dimensions and to acquire skills in making responsible decisions and actions with regard to sexual and reproductive health behaviour.Reproductive and sexual health is not only concentrating its focus on the biology and anatomy of reproduction and sex,but also providing young people with information about reproductive health process.It also teaches young people about dating,boy-girl relationship,marriage and contraceptions.

Diseases

Disease is composed of two words "dis" and "ease" which means lack of ease or comfort.Webster has defined as "a condition in which body health is impaired,a departure from a state of health."The oxford english dictionary defines the term disease as" a condition of the body in which its functions are disturbed.'There are two types of disease they are communicable and non-communicable disease.

Communicable disease:communicable disease is an illness caused by a specific infectious agent or toxic products.It is directly or indirectly transmitted from man to man animal to man,from the environment to man.some of the name of disease are listed as Round Worm(ascarislumbricoides),Diarrhoea,Dysentry,Cholera,common cold etc.

Reproductive System

Living things can reproduce their ofspring.In human beings the process of reproduction is sexual reproduction.Male and female produce specialized reproductive germ cells.Males produce spermatozoa whereas the females Produce ova.If a sperm can meet the ovum in the fallopian tube,it becomes fertilized.The fertilized ovum grows and develops in the wall of uterus.After a fourty weeks of pregnency a child is born.The process of reproduction can be more easily understandable if we study about the male repoductive organs and female reproductive organs seperately.The male reproductive organs are Testes,Epididymic,Vas Deferens,Seminal V,uterus,Fallopian Tube and Ovaries.Reproduction plays a very much important role to give the continiuty of human beings existence in the world.If no reproduction no existence of human beings in the world.

Primary Health Care

Introduction To Primary Health Care

Health is a fundamental human right.The individual,community,the nation and the goverment all have to play their respective roles collectively and actively in achieving health.Majority of the world population is living in low-income group,which could not affort the modern technology of treatment.Therefore, they lack basic health facilities.It is estimated that more than half of the world population inhabiting mostly in rural areas,does not have acess to proper health care..This inequality can be seen between developed and developing countries as well as rural and urban areas within a country.It is not desirable and aceptable.Therefore new approach to health care came into existence in 1978,following an international conference at Alma-Ata(USSR).This is known as "Primary Health Care"The Alma-Ata conference defined primary health care as follows.Primary health care is an essential health care made universally acessible to individuals and acceptable to them,through their full participation and at a cost the community andcountry can afford.

Importance Of Primary Health Care

Different modes of health services practices have been adopted and enforced for several decades however the problems of health has remain the same especially in the developing nations.If we compare the present health status with the past,we cannot see the significant achievement in the health status.Therefore it is a matter of queston for the person involved in health sector.All the nation must develop their rural areas to develop the nation as whole.For this purpose they must be facilated with some acessible and acceptable services which result the inception of primary health care.

In conclusion,primary health care emphasizes its programme on self care of the individual.For this purpose,health education plays a vital role.The self care system is extended to families and the community.At the same time intersectrol collabration and the integration of primary health care with other organaization are equally important for sucess of the programme.

Safety Education

Safety education is provided to protect the people from accident.We hear accident everyday from media in any parts of the world.Most of the accident occurs due to the carelessness of the individuals.Safety education prevent us from such situation.Truly specking,safety is to act carefully in different condition.Therfore,the safety education is a process of translating in our behaviour that we experience to prevent from accidents.We get the knowledge of different conditions of accidents,the experience of safety measures to be followed to prevent accidents from safety education.In developed countries,the incidence of accidents is very high.Young boys are the main victim of the incident.Safety does not mean to make all the condition accident proof.Some working condition are risky in their nature;however we have to work in those conditions.Though,all the accidents are not preventable,however,we can reduce the incident if we behave carefully.

First Aid

Introduction To First Aid:

Despite the application of safety measures,accident occurs in different places and situation.The occurence of an accident is uexpected and unplanned which may involved injury .In many incindences immediate measures are necessary for to save life.The immediate care of emergency care is termed as First Aid.

First Aid is the assistence rendered at the time of emergency with such material as may be avaialable.First aid is not a medical treatment.Thereofore,the responsibility of a first aider ends as medical treatment is available.Some incidence can be cured by first aid treatment itself.Some of the characterstices of first aid treatment are as follow.

1>The injury is bound to have disatrous effect.

2>The victim should be kept to the medical treatment as quick as possible.

3>Management of comfortable situtation for the victim.