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Concept of health and disease

Determinants of health are:

1. Heredity

2. Environment

3. Life-style

4. Socio-economic conditions

5. Health and family welfare services

Responsibility for health:

Health is in one hand a highly personal responsibility and on

the other hands a major public concern.

1. Individual responsibility:

A recent trend in health care is self-care .It is defined as “those

health generating activities that are under taken by the persons

themselves”

Self-care activities comprise the behavior of person relating to

diet, sleep, weight control, alcohol, smoking and drugs. Others

include attention to personal hygiene, cultivation of healthful habits

and lifestyle, submitting one to selective medical

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