Health unit 1

Part 2

  Illness

  It is a personal state in which the person feels unhealthy.

Illness is a state in which a person's physical, emotional, intellectual, social development or spiritual functioning is deminised or impaired compared with previous experience.

# Factors affecting health and illness

There are various factors affecting health and illness :-

1. Rising health care costs :-  It is increasing day by day

2. Physical factor :-  Physical may lead to psychological problem, like stress, anxiety and ageing.

3. Environmental factor :-  Environment is defined as all which is external to individual. It may be physical, biological and psychological.

4. Psychology factor :-  The loss may be of job , children or family members.

5. Host factor :- this include___

# Demographic : Age, sex .

6. Lifestyle factor- living habit

7. Behaviour factors 

8. Ageing : It also affect health and lead to many disease like heart disease and diabeties.

Causes and risk factor for developing

Causes

* Bacteria

* Virus

* Fungi

* Parasites

* Environment

* Genetics

* Lifestyle

A risk factor is any situation that affect social environment and psychological conditions.

1. Physical situation:-  Poor living conditions, lack of sanitation.

2. Biological situation:- Age, sex and genetics.

3. Socio culture situation:- Believes, traditions, habits.

Disease                                             Risk factor

1. Lung factors.                               Smoking, air, pollution

2. Diabeties.                                     Lack of exercises,                                                           excessive food consumption