Preventive Health & Disease Control — NEET Biology
📚 Practice ConceptBalanced diet, personal hygiene and regular exercise are very important to maintain good health. Yoga has been practised since time immemorial to achieve physical and mental health. Awareness about diseases and their effect on different body functions, vaccination (immunisation) against infectious diseases, proper disposal of wastes, control of vectors and maintenance of hygiene in food and water resources are necessary for achieving good health.
Match the following: Column I A. Health definition B. Yoga C. Vaccination and hygiene D. Infectious diseases E. Non-infectious diseases Column II 1. Achieve physical and mental well-being since ancient times 2. State of complete physical, mental, and social well-being 3. Transmitted easily from one person to another; e.g., AIDS 4. Cancer, drug, and alcohol abuse as major causes of death 5. Awareness, immunisation, waste disposal, vector control
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Correct answer: D — A–2, B–1, C–5, D–3, E–4
A–2: Health = complete physical, mental, social well-being. B–1: Yoga practised since ancient times for health. C–5: Vaccination, hygiene, and vector control improve health. D–3: Infectious diseases like AIDS are transmissible. E–4: Cancer, drug, alcohol abuse are non-infectious causes.
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