The document discusses health, population, and environment education. It defines health as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being. Health education aims to promote healthier lifestyles through changes in knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors. Population education creates awareness of population issues and encourages small, happy families. Environment education teaches about resource conservation and depletion. Health, population, and environment are interrelated - population growth impacts health and environment, while environmental degradation affects health. Their education is integrated due to these interrelationships and mutual influences.

1. Health, Population and
Environment Education
Omendra Shah

3. Health
• According to world health organization (WHO)
Health is a state of complete physical, social
and mental well-being and not merely the
absence of disease of infirmity. It has focused
on all the aspects of health. It encompasses
physical fitness, mental alertness and social
adaptability.

5. Dimensions of Health
• Physical Health: It means not to have any kind of disease in
the body organs. This aspects of health focuses on the
perfect body structure and proper functions of the body
organs.
• Mental Health: It refers to be free from stress, tension or
depression. This aspects of health emphasizes the ability of
making sound decision and judgments.
• Social Health: It refers to the capacity of human beings to
live as a social creature. An individual is an integral part of
the society. His/ her capacity to adjust in the society is also
a part of good health. It includes friendship, co-operation
and leadership motive and so on.

6. Health education
• Health education is concerned with
establishing the changes in the knowledge,
altitudes, and behavior of individual for their
healthier life. Health education helps people
to achieve good health through their own
efforts.

7. New Concept of Health

9. The importance of health education
are given below:
• Production of capable and efficient
manpower
• Reduction of mortality rate
• Eradication of superstition beliefs:
• Preservation of environment
• Attainment of positive health

11. The scope of health education are
given below:
• Fields of Health education from socio-
cultural point of view:
• Home
• School
• Community

12. The scope of health education is not
just limited with to home and
community and it is also not
complete in itself. In its educational
process, health education borrows
items forms various other social
sciences, e.g. psychology, sociology,
education, home science, bio-
chemistry, economics, etc.

14. The importance of environment education
are given in the following points:
•It imparts education on the important of different elements
aspects like stone, soil, water, land, plants, animals and
minerals.
•It changes the mind of people for the wise use of these
resources and their conservation.
•It makes people aware on the consequences of environment
depletion and environmental pollution.
•It encourages people to in environment conservation
programs and change their attitude towards the sustainable
development.
•It emphasis on participation of the local, national and
international agencies in environment.

15. Importance of Population Education
•To create small family by planning is one important
way to overcome the consequences of rapid
population growth.
•Population education brings changes in the behavior
of people and inspires them to create small and
happy family.
• It acts as a motivational factor which helps to
develop awareness among the people to adopt small
family as a means of happy life.
•Population education is considered as a separate
discipline in the SAARC nations but in other countries
it is integrated with other subjects like social, science,

16. The need and importance of health
education are given below:
To develop and practice desirable healthy behavior.
To appreciate the aesthetic values of healthy living,
including cleanliness, sanitation, exercise and
balanced diet.
To co- operate, rather than compete, with others in
the solution of health problems.
To find emotional satisfaction in individual
relationship with the school, home and community.
To contribute to the maintenance and improvement
of healthy of friends, neighbors, members of the
family, community and nation.

18. Population Education is the process
of developing population awareness
as well as rational altitude and
behavior towards the situation for
the attainment of quality of life, for
the individual, the family, the
community, the nation and the world.

19. The importance of population education
are given below:
Creation of awareness:
Promotion of quality of life:
Development of positive attitude
Insurance of future generation:

20. The scope of environmental education can be divided into biological,
physical and sociological aspects.
They are described below:
Biological aspect: Biological aspects is one of the most important
aspects of environmental education. Human being, animals, birds,
insects, microorganism, plants are some of the examples of biological
aspects.
Physical aspect: It can be further divided into natural aspects and
human- made aspects. Air, water, land, climate etc are included in
natural physical aspects. Likewise, Human made physical aspects cover
all human made things such as roads, buildings, bridges, houses etc.
Socio- cultural aspect: Socio- cultural aspects are man made social
practices, rules and laws, and other religious places etc. Human beings
have created them with their effort.

21. The scope of population education can be divided into the following five categories:
Demography: It is the study of population and deals with the measurement and analysis of birth
rate, death rate, migration rate, etc. Birth, death and migration are the major elements of
demography. Population change is a biological process. Demography includes birth rate, death
rate, sex ratio, dependency ratio, and age- sex pyramid and population growth rate.
Determines of population change: Population change in a places takes place due to birth, death
and migration. It also comprises biological, social and cultural aspects which directly affect the
elements of population change. It also analyzes the factors like poverty, practices which
influences population change.
Consequences of population growth: Rapid population grow directly affects economic, social
and environmental aspects of a place. The adverse effects of population growth on people's
health are important parts of population education. It also deals with analysis of population
growth and its consequences in daily life.
Human sexuality and reproductive system: It includes the fundamental aspects of human
sexual and reproduction process like sexual behaviors, development of human reproductive
system and associated problems. This scope of population education helps to develop a positive
attitude towards reproductive health.
Planning for the future: It includes various aspects of population management like appropriate
age at marriage and first conception birth spacing, family planning, family welfare and use of
contraceptives.

22. Health, population and environment education is introduced
as an integrated subject due to profound interrelationship
that exists among the subject matters of these three
disciplines. Any changes in one discipline directly influences
changes in other two subjects. For instance, the effect of
population growth lies in health and environment aspects.
Due to rapid population growth, degradation of the resources
takes place. Degradation of environmental resources affect in
healthy living. On the other hand, controlled population
creates a balanced environment and consequently, it tends to
produce healthy people. Therefore, education of health,
population and environment acts as supplementary of a one
another.

23. The following are the different aspects of health, population and environment which shows
the relationship between them:
Physical
Biological
Economical
Socio-cultural
Science and technology
Political
Psychological