This document discusses the role of education in quality of life. It states that education improves people's lives by increasing their productivity, creativity, and income. Educated people have better access to employment opportunities and a higher standard of living. Education plays a crucial role in economic and social progress by developing human capital. The document also discusses how education improves family life by enabling family members to fulfill basic needs and support each other through access to higher education and skilled jobs.

1. Role of Education in quality of life
M.Deivam M.Sc., M.Ed., M.Phil., Ph.D.,
Usha Latchumanan College of Education
Thirukkanur,
Puducherry UT – 605 501

2. Education meaning
Thus education means to lead out,
through the modification of the native
behaviour of the child.

3. Definition
An all round drawing out of the best in
child and man-body, mind and spirit”
-- Mahatma Gandhi

4. Introduction
 No country can achieve sustainable economic
development without substantial investment in
human capital.
 Education enriches people’s understanding of
themselves and world.
 It improves the quality of their lives and leads to broad
social benefits to individuals and society.

5. Cont..,
 Education raises people’s productivity and creativity
and promotes entrepreneurship an technological
advances.
 In addition it plays a very crucial role in securing
economic and social progress an improving income
distribution.

6. Role of Education in quality of life
Education is the source of knowledge, skill, capacities.
Education is the light of life.
Education helps to create awareness by removing
misconceptions.
Education helps to attain quality of life, educated people
have quality better than an uneducated person.
Educated people can develop their knowledge and skill
through education.

7. Cont..,
 Educated people have chances to get the employment
opportunities which help to maintain the quality of
living standard.

8. Importance of education: For quality of life
 Education is very important among all of us, the fact which is
commonly nothing to deny among any.
 It’s the education which transforms a person to live a better
life and more importantly in a socially well being.
 It educates us with all the needed attributes in leading our
life in a proper lifestyle.
 Education does make a remarkable effect on one’s
personality. Getting educated and finally earning a
professional degree prepares you to be a part and contribute
in good organizations, companies or Institutions.

9. Cont..,
 Education is the one which provides us the thrust in
getting ahead and doing something constructive in our
near future.
 Education involves gathering of knowledge in
whatever aspects. It helps a person to draw the best or
of their mind and spirit.
 Education plays a vital role in the personal growth and
the social development among all of us. It imparts us
with all the power and necessities in making a
noticeable mark in any of the field.

10. Family and Education
 One of the strongest and most consistent relationships
in family life education is between education and basic
family needs.
 A family with quality life usually places high priority
on the education of the children.
 An intelligent and educated person to higher
education can overcome his/her problems
accordingly.
 Schooling provides access to higher education later
and provides a person with knowledge that will enable
him/her to support his/her family

11. Cont..,
 The educated and skilled member of the family gets
and opportunity of employment, without any
difficulty.
 Educated an capable members of the family are able to
fulfill the basic requirements of the family easily.

12. Education and income
 Education persons are the skilled person. The have
more access to income generation than the
uneducated person.
 An increasing the income of the family, they can move
toward quality of life.
 An educated person knows how to solve the family
problems in an effective way.
 The family conflicts due to misunderstanding are less
likely to occur in such families.

13. Cont.
 Education helps to create a harmonious environment
in the family and attain quality of life.
 Education is one of the major elements of quality of
life, the parents should provide the quality education
to their children.
 Education helps to utilize modern materials and
inventions for maintaining the quality of living
standard of the family members.

14. Education and productivity
 Clearly the educational provisions within any given
country represent one of the main determinants of the
composition and growth of that country’s output and
exports and constitute an important ingredient in
system’s capacity to borrow foreign technology
effectively of workers.
 Example: health and nutrition, and primary and
secondary education all raise the productivity of
workers.

16. conclusion
 Education in every sense is one of the fundamental
factors of development, no country can achieve the
economic development without education

17. Health
World health organization definition of health:
Health is a state of complete physical, mental and
social well being
Health is not simply absence of disease and infirmity
Health statistics generally measure morbidity
(sickness) and mortality(deaths)

18. Objectives of health
 Increase quality and years of healthy life
 Eliminate health
 Improve (enhance) quality of life
 Extend life expectancy
 Premature mortality

19. Component of health in quality of
life
 Exercise
 Nutrition
 Rest and Sleep
 Periodic medical check up
 Spiritual well being
 Psychosocial well being

20. Health and development
 Health increase human potentialities of all kinds
 Everyone can benefit from better health in the present,
and improved health for the young will lead to
healthier population in future.
 Better child health and nutrition promotes future
productivity growth directly by helping children
develop into stronger and healthier adults

21.  Factors affecting nutritional status
 Age related changes
 Psychosocial factors
 Economic factors
 Cultural factors
 Age related changes
 Taste and smell
 Visual acuity
 Loss of teeth and poor fitting denture
 Psychosocial factors
 Living alone also will lead to lack of incentive to
work and eat

22.  Economic factors
 Low income
 Limited access to food and food choices
 Inadequate facilities to food storage and
preparation
 Cultural factors
 Eating habits may miss certain food group as
vegetarians

23. Nutrition and productivity
 Improved health increases the productivity in the
developing countries as the work often rely on strength
and endurance
 Marginal productivity of health is likely to be higher
relative to higher income countries
 Adults in poorer countries are more likely to be
afflicted with health problems, some of which stem
from early childhood

24. Some common indicators
 Crude death rate
 Life expectancy
 Infant mortality
 Height and weight
 Anemia
 Protein calorie malnutrition

25. Malnutrition
 It is a major source of ill health and premature death
in developing counties
 Most of the malnutrition today is of the type known as
PCM (Protein calorie malnutrition)
 Vitamin A deficiency that can cause blindness and
iron deficiency anemia are still very common in many
developing countries.

26. Causes of sickness and premature
death
 Environmental health problem
 Malnutrition
 Lack of medical care of adequate quantity, quality and
type
These are the causes of sickness and death in
developing countries and they deserve more careful
examination

27. Environmental sanitation
Contamination of water supply and some times also
food and soil with human waste.
-- This highlights the fact that many of the infection,
parasitic, and respiratory diseases that afflict poor
countries are water borne.
Housing with insufficient space, ventilation and access
to sunlight
-- This promotes the spread of airborne diseases such
as tuberculosis