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Factors Affecting Family Health

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A diet that contains adequate amount of all the necessary nutrients required for healthy growth and activity is called a balanced diet. This note provides an information about the factors that affect family health.
Factors Affecting Family Health
Balance diet

Balance diet

A diet that contains adequate amount of all the necessary nutrients required for healthy growth and activity is called a balanced diet. A balanced diet is a key component of our life. Proper diet can make us physically and mentally fit.

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Type of family (Nuclear or Joint family)

The joint family are likely to have more numbers of children than the nuclear family. Elder members of the joint family demand more grandchild as they are free and willing to care the child. The nuclear family are busy family and they focus on the career rather than child rearing. Children in the joint family get proper care and can socialize easily, but children in the joint family get a better facility.

Personal and environmental sanitation

Sanitation is civilization. Environmental sanitation determines the health of the whole family. Moreover, many water and air born diseases can be prevented by sanitation only.

Economic status

Economic status can affect the availability of basic needs. Many family is deprived of education and health facility due to poverty. The quality of life depends on economic status too.

Cleanliness

Cleanliness is first and foremost approach for quality of life. Cleanliness makes everyone healthy. Even though, one takes balanced diet one must maintain cleanliness to remain healthy.

Things to remember
  • A diet that contains adequate amount of all the necessary nutrients required for healthy growth and activity is called a balanced diet.
  • Children in the joint family get proper care and can socialize easily, but children in the joint family get the better facility.
  • Sanitation is civilization.
  • Economic status can affect the availability of basic needs.
  • Cleanliness is first and foremost approach for quality of life.
  • It includes every relationship which established among the people.
  • There can be more than one community in a society. Community smaller than society.
  • It is a network of social relationships which cannot see or touched.
  • common interests and common objectives are not necessary for society.
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Questions and Answers

Factors that determine family health are as follows: -

  • Size of family
  • Management of family income, saving and expenses.
  • Nutrition and food habits
  • Education
  • Socialization and social control
  • Health education
  • Sanitation
  • Peace and security
  • Entertainment and exercises

The major things to be considered are as follows: -

  • Nutritious food
  • Proper education
  • Sanitation
  • Entertainment and exercises

Parents should play a different role to manage their family health. They should act as caretaker, teacher, manager, sponsor etc. They should take care of their children and make sure that their children won't be the victims of smoking, alcoholism, and drug addiction.

A diet that contains adequate amount of all the necessary nutrients required for healthy growth and activity is called a balanced diet.

Any four factors that affect family health are: -

  1. Balanced diet
  2. Cleanliness
  3. Personal sanitation
  4. Type of family
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