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Public health emphasizes the importance of safe home, work, and community environments. Reliable access to clean drinking water, a toilet, and fuel is critical for human health. Minimizing exposure to hazards and injuries at work is is also essential for safety and well-being. Watch the TED Talk video (the link is provided below), and discuss in this forum the related issues. Feel free to share with us your thoughts and give your personal examples and observations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKBVwX8dVhI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlQXs0yofMs
The public health comprises of safe home, good working and community environments. These factors decide the existence of positive health among the community members. These are the basic ammenities and adequate maintainence of its provision and safety will determine health outcomes in a community. It have been found in various researches that the underlying cause for various disease outbreak is unsafe water, lack of proper toilet facilities resulting in open field defecations, improper fuel combustion. These factors have given rise to many serious health related ailments. They pollute the air, water, soil in which we live and also is competent enough to effect our future generations.
The people of the community are not only effected physically but also mentally, socially, economically and psychologically. Lack of good working environments have led to rise of many mental health illnesses. Measures has to be taken to improve their living standards. Health education and active health promotion activities is important to help people to manage these causative agents. Provision to safe drinking water, maintainence of environmental sanitation, proper disposal of waste, improved toileting facilities and fuel will help to improve the public health standards and would require minimal health assisatnce. The mortality and morbility shall also reduce.
Government has taken taken various steps to promote health and prevent illness but joined efforts of the community is very crucial to enhance positive outcomes. Work place safety is also important. Exposure to occupational hazards should also be promoted by use and education about the various protective devices. Its the responsibility of every individual to keep once environment clean, prevent pollution and protect earth from destruction.