Health Flashcards
Is a state of complete physical, mental, social wellbeing and not just the absence of diseases or infirmity. It leads to socially and economically productive life.
Health
Is defined as a sociological group in a large place sharing one environment.
Community
defined as the art and science of maintaining, protecting and improving the health of all the members of the community through organized and sustained community efforts.
Community health
study of how environmental factors can harm human health and how to identify, prevent, and control such effects
Environmental health
problem that troubles people for a very long time
Perennial problem is a
issue which keeps people worried all the time.
perennial concern is an
destruction of big areas of forests.
Deforestation
sudden flood of great volume, usually caused by a heavy rain
FLASH FLOOD is a
as the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, or reef, which forms the mineralized package of economic interest to the miner in the absence of land rights, mining license, exploration or mineral transportation permit or of any document that could legitimate the on-going operations
Illegal mining
when soil and rock are moved from one place to another by wind, water, and gravity
Soil wrosion
degradation of the ocean’s corals. It is normally caused by illegal fishing techniques, pollution, careless tourism, other natural phenomena such as earthquakes and hurricanes.
Coral reef destruction
CORAL REEF DEGRADATION is a significant problem throughout the world. It has been acknowledged that ??% of the world’s reefs have been affected.
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