BASIC FOOD PRODUCTS

BASIC FOOD PRODUCTS 1 . Cereals The common cereals are rice, wheat, maize, barley, rye, oats and millets. The millets consist of jowar, bajra, and ragi. The bulk of man's food (staple diet) consists of one kind or other of cereals. Cereals are monocotyledons or single-grained seeds of the domesticated grasses. As harvested they are enclosed in a woody en…

CLICK AND RAED STORY

CONCEPT HEALTH PROMOTION

Cures are a subset of treatments that reverse illnesses completely or end medical problems permanently. In the area of substance related harms, a number of prevention typologies have been proposed HEALTH PROMOTION Health promotion, as defined by the World Health Organization, is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their h…

TRANMISSION OF HEALTH

Some diseases such as influenza are contagious and infectious. Infectious diseases can be transmitted by as, by hand to mouth contact with infectious material on surfaces, by bites of insects or other carriers of the disease, and from contaminated water or food (often via faecal contamination), etc. In addition, there are sexually transmitted diseases. In some …

INDICATORS OF HEALTH

Following are the important statistical indices of a country's health status (1) Crude birth-rate. (ii) Crude death-rate. (iii) Specific death-rates. (iv) Standardised death-rates. (v) Proportional mortality-rate. (vi) Age proportional mortality rates. (vii) Maternal mortality-rate. (viii) Infant mortality-rate. (ix) Neo-natal and post-neonatal mort…

CONCEPT OF HEALTH

CONCEPT OF HEALTH INTRODUCTION Historically, health and illness were viewed as extreme son continuum, with the absence of clinically recognizable disease being equated with presence of health. World Health Organization (1974) defined health in terms of well-being and discouraged the conceptualization of he…

CONCEPT OF HEALTH INTRODUCTION Historically, health and illness were viewed as extreme son continuum, with the absence of clinically recognizable disease being equated with presence of health. World Health Organization (1974) defined health in terms of well-being and discouraged the conceptualization of health as simply the absence of disease. Recently W.H.…