Community Health

Community Health: How to Make Your Community More Desirable.

“I am a part of all that I’ve met” – Emerson

MOTIVATION for prioritising the Community Health

Benefits that may result from wise practices in community

1. PRIDE: It gives you a feeling of pride to live in a wholesome and healthy
2. HAPPY NEIGHBORS: The people within your block will be more friendly and have more respect for you.
3. BETTER LIVING: Life is fuller and happier when you and your family and friends all enjoy good health.
4. IMPRESSED VISITORS: The opinion of visitors about your community can be greatly enhanced through favorable health practices on your part.

DIRECTIONS to make healthy community

Helpful suggestions for a sound beginning in desirable community health.

CLEANLINESS of community

How to improve community sanitation.

1. Sterilize your garbage can frequently.
2. Keep alleys free of cans and trash.
3. Guard against throwing trash and scraps in streams and lakes.
4. Make use of trash containers when visiting your local parks.
5. Insist on and abide by the Pure Food and Drug laws.
6. Return the organic matter of sewage to the soil rather than pollute the streams.

BEAUTIFICATION of community

How to make your community more attractive.

1. Encourage neighbors to paint their homes regularly.
2. Insist that others throw paper and trash into corner containers rather than in the streets.
3. Form community circles and clubs for gardening techniques, landscaping, etc.
4. Bring pressure on those who contribute to smog.
5. Give prizes to the best kept house in your block.
6. Clear out and help avoid dump heaps on vacant lots.

COOPERATION within community for commuity health

How to aid federal, state, and local health agencies in health problems.

1. Abide by the local rules yourself.
2. Notify proper authorities of violations that are causing a menace in your neighborhood.
3. Report sources of health menaces to authorities.
4. Cooperate in clean-up campaigns.
5. Seek to establish new health rules that are needed.

Stoping the TRANSMISSION of disease for commuity health

How to help prevent the spread of communicable diseases in your community.

1. Control respiratory diseases by keeping those infected away from crowds.
2. Confine patients with direct skin-contact diseases like measles, smallpox, and chicken pox to their homes.
3. Keep your home area clean.
4. See that neighbors with pets practice sound measures in waste disposal.
5. Control alimentary canal diseases like cholera and typhoid fever through sound practices in sewage disposal and food and water supplies.
6. Destroy the vector animals in the neighborhood that transmit human diseases.

SAFETY

How to sponsor accident prevention campaigns in your neighborhood for community health.

1. Inform family members and friends on danger of burning trash on windy days.
2. Display posters of rules for preventing most common types of accidents in school hallways.
3. Show others how alcohol contributes to accidents.
4. Seek the advice and services of experts for saftery of community health.
5. Cooperate with the press to put on a campaign for safety.

ACTIVITY ASSIGNMENT for maintaining community health

Some work that may be done in an effective community health.

1. COMMITTEE WORK: Survey areas around your school and in the community in which you live for health menaces that you might remedy through tactful work in your class with the help of your school.
2. CLASS WORK: Analyze the problems reported by the committee as to the cause and Plan on paper a solution to each problem; then seek to have it carried out.
3. HOME WORK: Enlist family members to aid you in the task of improving sanitation and other desirable health practices around your home. Report on problems solved through cooperative efforts.