Understanding Community and Environmental Health

📚 This video discusses the concept of community and environmental health in the first quarter of health education.

🌎 A healthy community is characterized by well-being, and it is essential for achieving other goals and building a productive society.

🏫 Students have the opportunity to play a role in maintaining and promoting a healthy community and environment.

Characteristics of a healthy community according to the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2002 include a clean and safe physical environment, meeting basic needs, promoting social harmony, addressing local health issues, and access to health services.

Refuse materials are unwanted or discarded materials, including solid, semi-solid, liquid, and gas waste. Different kinds of refuse materials include rubbish, such as bottles and broken glass, as well as other types of waste.

The video will also cover different environmental problems.

🗑️ Refuse materials are divided into five categories: materials, garbage, yard cuttings, straight night soil, and ashes.

🥘 Garbage specifically refers to leftover food from kitchens and establishments.

🌿 Yard cuttings include leaves, branches, grass, and other materials produced during garden cleaning or after typhoons.

🌏 The video discusses the issue of refuse materials in the environment and proposes a solution.

🔄 The three R's of ecological waste management are introduced: reduce, reuse, and recycle.

♻️ Recycling is the process of turning used materials into useful ones, while composting is another method of waste disposal.

🌍 Environmental problems and their effects on health.

⚠️ Air pollution and its harmful effects.

💨 Types of pollutants: carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, lead, nitrogen dioxide.

🌬️ Air pollution causes serious lung damage, shortness of breath, and chest pains.

🌍 Land pollution occurs when solid wastes accumulate and cannot be broken down easily.

💧 Water pollution is the alteration of chemical properties of a body of water, leading to health risks.

🔊 Noise pollution is excessive sound that can cause hearing loss and stress.

🌍 Noise pollution is a form of environmental pollution that can negatively impact our health, leading to hearing loss, stress, fatigue, irritability, tension headaches, and high blood pressure.

📚 In the health modules, students will have to answer various activities and evaluations related to different topics and concepts.

👋 Thank you for listening and see you again in the next lesson.