Health and Population Dynamics

Abstract

Everyone wants good health: at its simplest, health is a state of physical and mental well-being. The World Health Organisation (WHO) makes it more complicated: all people should be able to fulfil their genetic potential, to grow and develop physically and mentally

• ○ with adequate food

• ○ with protection, as far as possible, from infectious disease

• ○ without environmental pollution

Hygiene is the term used to describe the principles and practice of preserving health. Much of Part 2 of this book, Human and Social Biology, has been concerned with the principles of health. This unit presents a summary.