Health is a fundamental right for every human being, a right for all people regardless of race, religion, political beliefs, or socio-economic status. The World Health Organization (W.H.O) has defined health as a state of complete physical, mental, psychological, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. In this book, "Health Culture," we aim to focus on the concept and methods of achieving health culture, immunity and the human body's resistance to disease, the classification of diseases, common infectious diseases and their symptoms, modes of transmission and prevention, modern-day diseases, environmental health, nutrition, family health, modern medical technologies and their impact on human health, and first aid for wounds, burns, poisoning, fainting, and fractures.
After studying this book, the researcher or reader is expected to be able to:
- Precisely define the concept of health culture.
- Clearly identify the meanings of basic concepts and terms related to health and health culture.
- Accurately recognize the ways to achieve health culture at both formal and informal levels.
- Explain the difference between general and specific resistance to diseases.
- Show how the body resists disease through the immune system.
- Classify human diseases based on various scientific foundations.
- List types of infectious diseases, their modes of transmission, and ways of prevention.
- Differentiate between infectious and non-infectious diseases.
- Understand modern-day diseases like diabetes and high blood pressure, their causes, complications, and how to prevent them.
- Distinguish between psychological and mental illnesses.
- Clarify the basic concepts related to addiction and the harmful substances that lead to it.
- Identify the most important areas of environmental health and their relationship to individual health.
- Demonstrate the relationship between food health and individual health.
- Understand the most important issues and topics related to maternity, childhood, and women's health.
- Recognize the most important modern medical technologies and their impact on individual health.
- Differentiate between correct and incorrect health behavior patterns.
- Perform necessary first aid for various injuries.
- Number of Pages: 312
- Year of Publication: 2019
- Binding Type: Hardcover
- Edition Number: 7
- Printing Color: Black
- Dimensions (cm): 17x24
- Weight (kg): 0.650
- Barcode: 9789957064945