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COMMUNITY  A social group determined by geographic boundaries/and or common values and interests. Members know and interact with each other Functions.

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1 COMMUNITY  A social group determined by geographic boundaries/and or common values and interests. Members know and interact with each other Functions with a particular social structure and exhibits and creates norms, values and social institutions

2 COMMUNITY People and the relationships that emerge among them as they develop and use in common Some agencies and institutions Physical environment

3 The Health Field Concept 4 elements 1.HUMAN BIOLOGY 2.Environment 3.Lifestyle 4.Health Care Organization

4 HUMAN BIOLOGY  physical and mental.  the genetic inheritance of the individual,  the processes of maturation  aging  and the many complex internal systems in the body.

5 Health implications of human biology  This element contributes to all kinds of ill health and mortality, including many chronic diseases (such as: arthritis, diabetes, athero-sclerosis, cancer) and others (genetic disorders, congenital malformation, mental retardation).

6 Environment  The ENVIRONMENT category- matters related to health external to the human body and over which the individual has little or no control.

7 Individuals cannot ensure:  that foods, drugs,cosmetics, devices, water supply, etc. are safe and uncontaminated;  That the health hazards of air, water and noise pollution are controlled;  that the spreadof communicable diseases is prevented;  that effective garbage and sewage disposal is carried out;  and that the social environment, including the rapid changes in it, do not have harmful effects on health.

8 Lifestyle  aggregation of decisions by individuals which affect their health and over which they more or less have control.  Personal decisions and habits that is bad, from a health point of view, create self-imposed risks.  When those risks result in illness or death, the victim’s lifestyle can be said to have contributed to, or caused, his own illness or death. 

9 Health Care Organization (Health Care System).  consists of the quantity, quality, arrangement, nature and relationships of people and resources in the provision of health care.

10  includes medical practice, nursing, hospitals, nursing homes, medical drugs, public and community health care services, ambulances, dental treatment and  other health services such as optometry, chiropractics and podiatry.

11 CLASSIFICATION OF COMMUNITY  1. URBAN-  - HIGH DENSITY, SOCIALLY HETEROGENOUS POPULATION AND COMPLEX STRUCTURE, NON AGRICULTURAL OCCUPATIONS, SOMETHING DIFFERENT FROM AN AREA CHARACTERIZED BY COMPLEX INTERPERSONAL SOCIAL RELATIONS. 

12 RURAL  -USUALLY SMALL AND OCCUPATION OF THE PEOPLE IS USUALLY FARMING, FISHING AND FOOD GATHERING.  ITS PEOPLED BY SIMPLE FOLKS CHARACTERIZED BY PRIMARY GROUP RELATIONS, WELL KNIT AND HAVING A HIGH DEGREE OF GROUP FEELING.

13 RURBAN  WITH CHARACTERISTICS OF BOTH URBAN AND RURAL


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