NSTP 3

• public health - involves policies and actions designed to promote the overall health of the people in community
• hygiene - it refers to the practices aimed towards preventing diseases and maintenance of health through cleanliness and healthy living
• sanitation - it pertains to the hygienic practice of waste disposal ang keeping the environment within hygienic standards
• nutrition - refers to the balanced intake of nutrients necessary to enable the human body or parts of the body to perform its functions
• EFFECT OF MALNUTRITION TO CHILDREN

  Weak body resistance

  Weak mental capability

  Derailed growth
• COMMON HEALTH PROBLEMS

  Sore eyes

  Chicken pox

  Tuberculosis

  Sexually Transmitted disease

  HIV or AIDS

  Dengue h-fever
• sore eyes - caused by a virus in which the surface of the eyeball and the inside of the eyelids became inflamed. it may be transferred by hand contacts
• chicken fox - highly contagious disease which affects young ones during their early years but it is mpre severe in adults
• tuberculosis - a highly contagious bacterial infection usually affecting the lungs. this is a disease which is the most common cause of death in the philippines
• sexually transmitted disease - are disease or infection which are transmitted between humans by means of sexual contact
• HIV or AIDS - stands for immunodeficiency virus, the virus that causes aids
• HIV - found in the blood and other body fluids such as semen, viginal secretions and breast milk of mothers infected with the virus
• aids - can be felt between two months to ten years
• SYMPTOMS OF AIDS

  Swelling of glands

  Soaking night sweats

  Fever

  Chills

  Paralyzing fatigue

  Weight less

  Diarrhea
• dengue hemorrhagic fever - one of the common but serious infectious viral desease found in sub
• pandemic - is a type of epidemic that relates to geographic spread and describes a disease that affects an entire country or the whole world
• epidemic - is an outbreak of a disease that spreads quickly affects many people at the same time