5th Grade

MAJOR
HEALTH
PROBLEMS
Social Studies in English Lesson
LESSON OBJECTIVES

In this lesson you will learn:

• to identify the major health flats to human

populations.
• to identify the causes of the major health threats.
• to suggest solutions to the major threats
• to human health.
IMPROVEMENTS IN HEALTH

The population has access to

01 enough food to avoid
undernourishment and two a
variety of food that ensures
people get all the different
nutrients they need.
IMPROVEMENTS IN HEALTH
The population will also have
02 access to clean water for
drinking and good sanitation
systems.

These allow people to wash

away germs and get rid of
waste, which helps prevent the
spread of diseases.
 IMPROVEMENTS IN HEALTH

Countries are also better able to

03
inform and educate their
populations about health issues.

They can also provide better

health services to prevent and
treat illnesses.
 Did you know?
Exercising for 30 minutes by walking at
3.2 kilometers per hour uses 75 calories,
running at 9.6 kilometers per hour burns
300 calories, and swimming breaststroke
burns 367 calories.
COMMUNICABLE AND CONTAGIOUS
DISEASES

Communicable and contagious

diseases are those that can be passed
from one person to another.
COMMUNICABLE AND CONTAGIOUS
DISEASES

This can happen when people are in

direct contact or when there is an
exchange of bodily fluids, for
example through a sneeze or cough.
COMMUNICABLE AND CONTAGIOUS
DISEASES

Diseases can also sometimes be spread

by insects such as mosquitoes.
 COMMUNICABLE AND
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES

Disease Prevention
 Three ways to deal with diseases:
2. Treatment of
the disease one
and where
medicines exist.

1. Prevention of 3. Education programs

diseases, for example to inform people about
through immunization the symptoms of the
or through the use of diseases, how they are
such items as mosquito spread and how they
nets or the provision of can be treated.
clean water
 Non- communicable diseases (NCDs)

Non-communicable diseases or NCDs

are non-infectious and cannot be
transmitted between people. They
include heart disease, many cancers
come asthma, diabetes and high blood
pressure.
The main risk factors of Non- Communicable Diseases
or NCDs

01 tobacco use 03 lack of physical

exercise

02 unhealthy diet 04 harmful use of

(high in sugar, fats alcohol
and salt)
 Seatwork
In your own opinion. Explain why is it so
imprtant to take good care of our health
and provide ways to improve it.
HOMEWORK

Design a poster that

informs people of one of
the common threats to
health and how these can
be avoided.
Thank you!