Unit 5.1

Health and hygiene: Public health

Advertising

Concept of personal hygiene

  • Personal hygiene is the degree to which people keep themselves clean and it varies from person to person.
  • Hands should be washed after using a toilet, before eating and after coming home.
  • Around 62% of British people wash themselves every day with people in London and Scotland being the cleanest with 68% bathing daily.

Behaviour relating to looking after one’s health

  • Doing sports:
    • Playing sports helps in reducing body fat and controlling your body weight.
    • People usually run alone, often with headphones on and listening to music. Sometimes they run in pairs. Most common running hours are early morning, late afternoon and evening.
  • Importance of a diet:
    • A good diet can help you to reach and keep a healthy weight, reduce risk of chronic diseases (like heart disease and cancer) and promote your overall health.
    • Traditional British diet is seen as unhealthy. It lacks wholegrain, nuts and fruits. According to the Lancet study, unhealthy diet causes one in seven deaths in Britain every year.
  • Ways to combat stress:
    • Exercising – around 32% of British people use exercises to reduce their stress levels. It is most popular in Northern Ireland and among Londoners.
    • Watching television is one of the most popular ways to combat stress.
    • Young people usually pick listening to music as a way to combat stress.
    • Older people prefer going out for a walk to reduce stress level.

Ambassadors

Open TextBooks are collaborative projects, with people from all over the world bringing their skills and interests to join in the compilation and dissemination of knowledge to everyone and everywhere.

Become an Ambassador and write your textbooks.

Online Teaching

Become a Books4Languages Online tutor & teacher.

More information here about how to be a tutor.

Translations


Contributors

The Books4Languages is a collaborative projects, with people from all over the world bringing their skills and interests to join in the compilation and dissemination of knowledge to everyone, everywhere.

License