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Diploma in Community Health Nursing
Environmental Health Unit: Personal and Communal Hygiene, Their Importance and the Measures That Protect Health
An environmental health unit on hygiene as the first line of prevention. It defines personal and communal hygiene, sets out why maintaining personal hygiene protects the individual, the family and morale, and works through the measures that protect and improve health - personal cleanliness, the mouth and teeth, the gut, food and drink, rest and recreation, protection from the elements, insects and contaminated water - with the need for a healthy mind and companionship. The environmental components and their effects on health frame the unit.
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