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1.1 Aspects of Health, Population and Environment
Health, population and environment education is very broad and multidisciplinary. It
includes subject matters related with health, population, family life as well as various
resources in environment. All the subject matters which are regarded as aspects of
health, population and environment are regarded as aspects of health, population and
environment. We can show various aspects of health, population and environment in the
following figure:

Physical aspect

Health,
Psychological aspect Biological aspect

Political aspect Population Socio-cultural aspect
and
Environment

Science and technological aspect Economic aspect

Various aspects of health, population and environment are described below:

a. Physical aspects
Physical aspects of health, population and environment
include the abiotic factors, natural things and man-
made things. Air, water, soil, minerals, mountains,
hills, terai, etc. are the natural things present in
environment. Similarly, the physical infrastructures
like roads, bridges, canals, tunnels, airports, hydro-
power, industries, transportation facilities, etc. made
by human beings to fulfill their needs are also physical Fig: 1
aspects.

b. Biological aspects
Biological aspects of health, population and
environment include all the living things in
environment. For example: plants, animals, birds,
insects, reptiles, micro-organisms, etc. There is variation
in plants, animals, birds, etc. depending on differences
in geographical conditions. It is very important for
proper growth, development and survival of human Fig: 2
beings as well as for making balance in environment.

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