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Unit
Community Health and Mental Health 2

Observe the posters and discuss them based on the given points.
a. Community health and mental health

b. Reason for celebrating Female Community Health Volunteers'
Dayand Mental Health Day
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COMMUNITY HEALTH
2.1 Community Health

Community health is a practice of individual and collective activi-
ties and effortsin the community to identify health problems and
solve them. Different components come under community health
such as nutrition, cleanliness, health service, mental health, preven-
tion and treatment of disease, awareness and promotion of health,
rehabilitation, etc.It is about enhancing and rnaintaining the health
of the entire con1munityin which an individual lives. Therefore, it
plays an important rolein maintaining an individual's health.

A healthy individual can spend a purposeful life. Healthy persons
can easily express and manage their emotions, present their logic,
participate in the interaction, and adjust them as per the situation.
They can solve their own problem. They are also able to evaluate
themselves and identify their own ability.

2.1.1 Community Health Problem

Our community111ay be facing different health problems such as
epidemics, malnutrition, and environmental pollution. Community
health problerns may differ in each community. Diarrhea, dysen-
tery, andcholera can spread in the community. These epidemics are

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