Human performance
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1.1 HEALTH AND ITS DETERMINANTS
The word heath organization who defines health as a estate of comp,ete physical, mental and social well-being
THE DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
The determinants of health include individual biological factors, envirmental factors and factors related to lifestyle and public health measures, all of which affect our health.
The positive impact of these factors on a person health is denoted by a plus sing(+) and the negative impact, by a minus sing(-).
- Biological determinats of health are an individual personal characteristics related to the physical make-up of the human body
- enviroment determinats of health are the features of our enviroment
a lifestyle is the set of habbits that reflects an individual or group way of life.The factors that contibute to meintaning a healthy lifestyle(+ factors) include the following habit:
keeping basic standars of personal hygiene
- doing regular physical activity
- not consuming harful substances (sach as drogs,alchol or tabacco)
- not selft-medicating
- getting enough sleep
1.2 ILLNESSES
An illnesses is any physical or mental symptom that causes the body to not function properly
TYPES OF ILLNESSES
- Non-infectatious illnesses aren´t caused by pathogens;r ether , they develop as a result of other causes
- infectious illnesses are caused by pathogens
THE TRANMISSION OF INFECTIOUS ILLNESSES
- direct transmission > The pathogen passes directly from a sick person to a healthy person
- indirect >the pathogen uses different vehicles for transmission (water,animals or food) called vectors, to spread from an ill person to a healthy prson