Health and its Failure
Health and its Failure: Overview
This topic covers concepts, such as, Illness, Health, Significance of Health, Importance of Sanitation and Personal Hygiene, Five F's of Personal Hygiene & Importance of Public Cleanliness etc.
Important Questions on Health and its Failure
The practice of maintaining cleanliness and grooming of the external body is called _____.

Name some different types of personal hygiene.

What are the negative effects of poor personal hygiene?

List the precautions that will you take to avoid diseases?

Which of the following factors is necessary for a healthy person?

How is garbage collected at our houses?

Have you had a health check-up in your school? What did the doctor tell you?

Sewage is the common source of contamination of water in the cities.

Contamination means entry of germs by insect bite.

Mention if the following statement is true or false about the housefly:
It is particularly attracted to sweet foodstuffs and rotten meat.

Which of the following rooms maintain a better hygiene?



Calcium deficiency occurs in the body in the absence of vitamin.

WHO stands for _____. (World Health Organisation/World Heart Organisation)

Which one of the following is not important for individual health?

How are dirty surroundings harmful?

Observe the pictures shown in following and write description in the boxes.

Have you ever seen your grandparents taking the decoction? Discuss about it with them.

Laughter club is a remedy to drive away_____.(Mental stress/ mental relaxation)
