This document discusses community and environmental health. It defines community health as efforts through organized community efforts to maintain, protect, and improve health. Environmental health is defined as aspects of health determined by physical, chemical, biological, social, and psychosocial factors in the environment. A healthy community is characterized as having a clean environment, basic needs met, social harmony and participation, local issue understanding, health services, and sustainable resource use. A healthy environment ensures healthful living conditions and impacts health through factors like air, water, land, and noise quality. The document suggests preventing and managing environmental issues that affect health, such as pollution, mining, fishing practices, and climate change.

1. COMMUNITY AND
ENVIRONMENTAL
HEALTH

2. Define community and environmental health
Describe a healthy community
Explain how a healthy environment positively
impacts the heath of people and communities
Discuss the nature of environmental issues
Suggest ways to prevent and manage
environmental health issues
Participate in implementing an environmental
project
OBJECTIVES

3.  What comes to your mind when you hear the words community
environment?
 A. Write words that will describe COMMUNITY and
ENVIRONMENT
 B. Based on your answers in letter A. How will ytou define
community and environment?
COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENT

4. Is a group of people in a large place,
sharing a common environment.
It involves the individual and the
family
WHAT IS COMMUNITY

5. Is the art and science of maintaining,
protecting and improving the health of all
members of the community through organized
and sustained community efforts.
WHAT IS COMMUNITY HEATH?

6. Consist of prevention or control of disease,
injury and disability associated with
interactions between people and their
environment.
Comprises those aspects of human health
that are determined by physical, chemical,
biological, social and psychosocial factors on
the surrounding environment
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

7.  All the physical, chemical and biological factors
external to a person and all those environment
factors that can potentially affect health.
 it is targeted towards preventing disease and
creating health supportive environments.
 This definition excludes behavior not related to
environment, as well as behavior related to the
social cultural environment and genetics
ACCORDING TO WORLD HEATH
ORGANIZATION

8.  The characteristics of a health community according to the world health
organization (2002) include:
 A clean and safe physical environment
 An environment that meets everyone's basic needs
 And environment that promotes social harmony and actively involves
everyone
 An understanding of local and environmental issues
 A community that participates in identifying local solutions to local
problems
 A community whose members have access to varied experiences, means of
interaction and communication
 Accessible and appropriate health services and facilities
 The promotion and celebration of historical and cultural heritage
 A diverse innovative economy
 A sustainable use of available resources for all
WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A
HEALTHY COMMUNITY?

9. Environment is composed of all external, circumstances and
influences surrounding a person.
 The air your breath
 The water you drink
 The land you live in
 The noise you hear
“Health environment ensures healthful and comfortable living
conditions”
WHY IS HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT
IMPORTANT?
Parts of environment

10. Air quality
Climate changes
Disaster
Water protection
Food safety
Toxic waste management
AFFECTING OUR HEATH

11. What are the environmental Issues that affects our community
 Improper Waster Disposal
 Pollution
 Illegal Mining
 Cyanide Fishing
 Pesticide Drift
 Deforestation
 Oil Spill
 Coral Reef Degradation
 Climate change
NATURE AND HEALTH EFFECTS OF
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES