Solve your Ignou Doubts

Define communication and explain its importance to the community

Write treatment and preventive measures to combat the following:
 i. Measles
 ii. Whooping Cough

Differentiate between infectious and non-infectious diseases by giving appropriate examples.

Justify the statement “Soft diet is similar to the normal diet” by giving appropriate examples.  

What do you understand by growth monitoring? Explain how growth monitoring influences child health.

Enlist different determinants of community health. 

How availability and acceptability influence food behavior? Explain

Define community health and community nutrition. Enumerate the different components of community nutrition.

Observe how waste is disposed off in your home, locality and city/town. Record your observations and comment on the following: ( Refer to Unit 5)
i) Is there segregation of wet and dry waste?
ii) How is the waste collected by the municipal corporation of your city/town?
iii) How does the municipal corporation dispose the collected waste in your city/ town? 

Visit a nearby school where Mid-day meal is being served. Write down the details of supplementary nutrition provided to children under the mid-day meal scheme. Record the menu provided to children on different days of the week. Interview and find out the likes, dislikes and acceptance of food by the children. (Refer to Unit 22) 

Write down five messages to promote environmental protection. Also elaborate on your role in environmental protection. (Refer to Unit 24)  

Identify any five public health problems affecting individuals in our country. Prepare an information based pictorial pamphlet to educate the community about the causes, symptoms, prevention and treatment of any one of these health problems. (Refer to Activity 6 of Practical Manual-Part 2)  

Role of NGO’s in promoting healthy environment.  

Deforestation 

Name the various anti-poverty programmes for the rural poor in India. Discuss any one in detail. 

What are the objectives and components of the following programmes:
 i) ICDS
 ii) National iodine deficiency disorders control programme

Enlist the essential components of primary health care. Discuss any two components in detail. 

What are the common fungal infections of skin that occur in India? Who gets the disease and how can it be prevented? 

Enumerate the symptoms and complication of tuberculosis. 

Enumerate the symptoms, causes and prevention of any two of the following
food borne diseases:
i) Cholera
ii) Dysentery
iii) Infectious hepatitis