A person who is educated about health knows:

•Healthy eating and physical activity strengthen your body.•How to prevent deficiency diseases and obesity.•That it makes you feel optimistic and produces feelings of well-being.

• Eliminate microorganisms which may grow in the mouth, the skin and can be found in clothes, in food and in water.• Hygiene prevents infectious illnesses and some types of poisoning.

• avoid accidents, •prevent poisonings,• reduce the possibility of infections • get better if you become ill.Socialising, or being friendly with people, helps:• prevent anxiety and enables you to see different points of view.•solve personal conflicts and conflicts with others.

Vaccination campaigns. Vaccines are administrated in health centres to prevent infectious illnesses such as smallpox, chickenpox, polio, influenza and tetanus .Health information:on hygiene, habits and warnings about the consequences of consuming drugs or alcohol and about first aid and the use of medicines.

These check-ups are carried out at health centres or in schools and work places.

Emergency servicesEmergency services. They respond to emergency calls, travel to the scene of accidents or natural disasters, provide medical care, transport the sick or injured ...

As a society we are responsible to reduce the risk of infections and prevents accidents and poisonings for:

water purification and distribution, controlling waste treatment, monitoring food hygiene and safety, the

health of livestock and fishery products.

QUESTIONS What do healthy eating and physical activity prevent ?

What types of microorganisms do hygiene eliminate ?

How can you avoid accidents and infections ? Can you mention 3 infectious illnesses ?

Where do regular health check-ups take place ? Can you say four things of which we are responsible of as a society ?