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4. Maintain personal hygiene and environmental sanitation
5. Regular health check up
6. Marriage at appropriate age

7. Conceive at appropriate age and maintain birth spacing
8. Knowledge of primary health care
9. Maintain balance between rest and exercise

10. Vaccination

d. Sanitation
We know that dirty/polluted surrounding is the
source of germs and diseases. People living in such
environment are affected with different types of
health problems. Sanitation in the environment
makes it clean, green and healthy. It helps us to
prevent diseases as well as live active and long life.
Therefore, maintenance of sanitation inside and
outside the house, public properties like well, tap, Fig: 10
inns (pati-pauwa), temples, ponds, lake, etc. has
an important role in maintaining quality of life.

e. Education
Education enlightens the life of people. It makes
people able to distinguish between good and bad
things. An educated person can have good family
relationship, co-operate with the people in the
society and promote the development activities
of the society. Quality education also gives quality
employment opportunities and good earning.
This helps to fulfill the needs and demands of the Fig: 11
family easily and maintain quality of life.

f. Income and Employment Opportunities
The nature of income governs the quality of life of the family. Different people are
engaged in different types of income generating activities. In Nepal, majority of people
are engaged in agriculture. Some are engaged in trade, business, jobs, services, etc. The
more the number of people are engaged in productive work, better will be the income
generation. So, more opportunities of employment is to be created. Even the illiterate
people can be given skill oriented training so that they can engage in income generating
activities. When maximum number of family members generate income, the economic

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