health is wealth

2. Lecture content:
 Basic definition
 Health, health technology
 Personal health impersonal health
 Factor influencing health
 Illness
 Acute chronic illness
 Health problems

3. “ Health is a state of physical, mental, social, and spiritual well-being and not
merely absence of disease or infirmity.”
Health technology:
It describes the process of the application of scientific knowledge and skills to
provide health care to individual or group and includes with the manpower
resources and instrumentation.

4.  Maternal and child health
 Child welfare
 School health
 Occupational health
Impersonal health:
 Water supply
 Communicable diseases
 Vector control

5.  Heredity
 Environment
 Life style
 Socioeconomic conditions
 Health and family welfare services
 Health related symptoms

6. “Illness is a phenomenon in which one or more natural functions
of the body are so disturbed that the affected individual cannot
meet the natural requirements of everyday life.”
Or
“It is a state in which the equilibrium of the body and its
functions are disturbed.

7. “A person is said to be in acute illness, if the disturbance is severe and its
duration is not too long”
Chronic illness:
“A person is said to be in chronic illness, if the disturbance continue for a
long duration without disability.

8. The major health problems are as under and all specification
necessarily be applicable to every population subgroup.
Communicable disease:
Preventable:
 ( tetanus, measles, diphtheria, whooping cough,
poliomyelitis, tuberculosis.
Infectious:
 ( viral, bacterial) e.g sexually transmitted disease, hepatitis.
parasitic:
 Malaria, hookworm, guinea worm.

9. Malnutrition:
 Protein energy malnutrition
 Vitamin/mineral/iodine deficiency
 Anaemia
Birth related problems:
Problems associated with the perinatal such as still birth, low birth weight,
congenital disorder.
Geriatric problem:
Health problems related to the aging process.

10. Accidents:
All accidents but those directly related to the working environment.
Occupational health related problems:
Accidents and disease related to the working environment.
Non communicable disease:
Disease which are not spread by contact often resulting from environmental
problems or inappropriate health behaviors such as heart disease, diabetes,
cancer.

11. Emerging health problems:
Health problems which have only recently become significant, or are
expected to emerge in the near future. Examples include, acquired immune
deficiency syndrome( AIDS), drug abuse, certain types of cancer.
Leading cause of major health problems:
1. House hold environments
 poor water supply
 Lack of family hygiene
 Poor food handling
 Insanitary living conditions

12. General social and physical environment:
 poor garbage
 Excreta disposal
 High level of air, soil, and water pollution
 poor control of water supply
 Slaughter house
 Food market
 Industrial exhaust
 Low level of education and literacy
 employment

13.  Public health and community medicine by muhammad ilyas
2006
 Text book of community medicine by prof h.a siddiqui 2nd
edition

14. Thank you