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The document discusses community health and the environment. It defines a community as a social unit with shared characteristics. The environment includes both living and non-living elements that impact human life. Community health focuses on the well-being of people in a certain geographic area, while environmental health deals with natural and built aspects of the environment that affect human health. The document also lists some common problems in communities like air pollution and drug abuse and explains their negative health and environmental impacts.

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Health 9

The document discusses community health and the environment. It defines a community as a social unit with shared characteristics. The environment includes both living and non-living elements that impact human life. Community health focuses on the well-being of people in a certain geographic area, while environmental health deals with natural and built aspects of the environment that affect human health. The document also lists some common problems in communities like air pollution and drug abuse and explains their negative health and environmental impacts.

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HEALTH 9

Activity 1

Community
- A community is a social unit that shares characteristics such as location, norms, religion,
values, practices, or identity.

Environment
- The environment can be described as the totality of all living and non-living elements
and their effects on human life.

Community Health
- Community health is a medical speciality concerned with the physical and mental well-
being of people in a certain geographic area.

Environmental Health
- Environmental health is the field of public health that deals with all components of the
natural and built environment that have an impact on human health.

Activity 2

1. When can you say that a community is an ideal one? What are the characteristics that a
community must have to be considered healthy?

- A good community is a cohesive, safe, confident, prosperous and happy place. It is free
of poverty and crime, providing a high quality of life for everyone that lives there.

2. As a citizen of the community, how can you make it an ideal one?


- A good citizen must coexist peacefully with his neighbors and fellow citizens.

3. List problems being encountered in your community and environment and explain its causes
and negative impacts.
● Air Pollution
- Air pollution can affect bodies of water and soil directly. This has the potential to
harm crops or reduce their output. High amounts of air pollution can also have a
number of negative health effects. It raises the chances of getting respiratory
infections, heart problems, and lung cancer.
● Drug Abuse
- Drug manufacture has a number of environmental consequences. It causes
widespread carbon emissions, water scarcity, pollution, and biodiversity loss.
Each of these effects has far-reaching short- and long-term consequences for all
species on Earth.

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