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the behaviors of people. When people have positive thinking, they work for conservation
of environment, control of pollution, control of diseases, maintenance of cleanliness and
sanitation. But, when people have negative feelings and thinking, they tend to destroy
resources which in turn affects health and population as well.

1.2 inter-relationship Between Aspects of Health, Population and Environment
Health, population and environment education are inter-related and interdependent
on one another. We must have knowledge and understanding about them. If we lack
knowledge on any one of them, the rest of others become incomplete. For example:
people like to live in the places having fresh air, supply of drinking water, etc. Clean
environment makes the life of people healthy. Due to population growth, there is increase
in environment degradation, increase of pollution, spreading of disease and many other
environmental problems. Likewise, it is only the human being who can use natural
resources in sustainable way and manage them properly. That is how, health, population
and environment are inter-related with each other.
We can show the inter-relationship between health, population and environment
education through the following chart:

Physical Socio-cultural
aspects aspects
Health Population
Biological Education Education Psychological
aspects aspects

Economic Environment Political
aspects Education aspects

Science and technological aspects

a. Relationship of Physical Aspects with Other Aspects

Physical aspects include the natural and artificial things present in environment. They
are most essential for proper growth, development and survival of human beings. The
presence of physical aspects supports in the existence of human life. Physical aspects of
health, population and environment are related with health and population. For example,
people like to live in such places which have fresh air, clean environment, cultivable land,
drinking water, etc. Clean environment makes people healthy. Availability of cultivable
land supports in growing of different crops in order to maintain health. When people
randomly use natural resources, there is degradation of environment which in turn causes
spreading of diseases and many other problems to people.
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