For NEET preparation :
HUMAN HEALTH AND DISEASE :
HEALTH:
It is dedined as a state of complete physical, mental and social well being.
(1) balanced diet, personal hygiene and regular exercise are very important to maintain good health.
(2) Awareness about diseases and their effect on different body functions, vaccination against and water resources are necessary for achieving good health:
(3) The factors which affect human health are:
(a) Genetic disorders (b) infections. (c) lifestyle
Health is the functional and metabolic efficiency
of an organism, at any moment in time, at both the cellular and global levels.
All individual organisms, from the simplest to the
complex, vary between optimum health anf zero
health(dead). In the medical field, health is
commonly defined as an organisms ability to
efficiently respond to challanges(stress) and
effectively restore and sustain a ''state of balance'', known as homeostatis.
Health is not merely being free from diseases.
Infact, health involves physical, mental and social well beings.
-on the basis of duration and types of symptoms, the diseases can be of two types.
(1)ACUTE DISEASES:
-they are small duration disease but the symptoms
are highly dangerous and fatal for life of the individual.
(2) CHRONIC DISEASES :
- they are long duration diseases, may be months,
or years. Symptoms of such diseases are not sharp and alarming.
Health is the functional and metabolic efficiency
of an organism, at any moment in time, at both the cellular and global levels.
All individual organisms, from the simplest to the
complex, vary between optimum health anf zero
health(dead). In the medical field, health is
commonly defined as an organisms ability to
efficiently respond to challanges(stress) and
effectively restore and sustain a ''state of balance'', known as homeostatis.
Health is not merely being free from diseases.
Infact, health involves physical, mental and social well beings.
-on the basis of duration and types of symptoms, the diseases can be of two types.
(1)ACUTE DISEASES:
-they are small duration disease but the symptoms
are highly dangerous and fatal for life of the individual.
(2) CHRONIC DISEASES :
- they are long duration diseases, may be months,
or years. Symptoms of such diseases are not sharp and alarming.
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