2. A person who is educated about health knows:
•Healthy eating and physical activity strengthen
your body.
•How to prevent deficiency diseases and obesity.
•That it makes you feel optimistic and produces
feelings of well-being.

3. • Eliminate microorganisms which may grow in the
mouth, the skin and can be found in clothes, in food
and in water.
• Hygiene prevents infectious illnesses and some types
of poisoning.

4. • avoid accidents,
•prevent poisonings,
• reduce the possibility of infections
• get better if you become ill.
Socialising, or being friendly with people, helps:
• prevent anxiety and enables you to see different points of vie
•solve personal conflicts and conflicts with others.

5. Vaccination campaigns. Vaccines are administrated in health centres to
prevent infectious illnesses such as smallpox, chickenpox, polio, influenza
and tetanus .
Health information:on hygiene, habits and warnings about the
consequences of consuming drugs or alcohol and about first aid and the
use of medicines.

6. These check-ups are carried out at health centres
or in schools and work places.
Emergency services. They respond to emergency
services
calls, travel to the scene of accidents or natural
disasters, provide medical care, transport the sick
or injured ...

7. As a society we are responsible to reduce the risk
of infections and prevents accidents and
poisonings for:
 water purification and distribution,
 controlling waste treatment,
 monitoring food hygiene and safety, the health of
livestock and fishery products.

8. QUESTIONS
What do healthy eating and physical activity
prevent ?
What types of microorganisms do hygiene
eliminate ?
How can you avoid accidents and infections ?
Can you mention 3 infectious illnesses ?
Where do regular health check-ups take place ?
Can you say four things of which we are
responsible of as a society ?