Interrelationship among Health, Population and Environment Education

Health, population and environment are integrated terms. They are interrelated in many respects. Health of an individual is directly associated with the massive environmental degradation. That’s why the ground of all these subjects is common. An attempt to study any of these subjects in isolation is to miss many things and make the study lame. Due to their association with each other, these three subjects should be studied in an integrated manner.
The relation among these subjects in various aspects is described below. Physical aspect Physical aspect of the environment refers to all non-living things. It includes natural elements like air, water, soil etc. as well as artificial elements like house, house, buildings; roads etc. survival of population is possible only by use of these elements. These physical factors determine the health of an individual. If air is polluted, the air contains harmful gases and health status become poor. In contrary, if environment is clean and fresh, the health will be good. Therefore, health, population and environment education are interrelated in physical aspect. Biological aspect Health, population and environment education are interrelated in biological aspect too. Biological aspect of the environment includes plants, animals and birds. Biological environment provides food, clothes and shelter as well. We have always observed that the food you eat comes from plants. Plants such as cotton and animals such as silkworm, sheep etc. are the sources of clothes for us. Biological environment determines the health of the individuals. People get nutritive food where there is good agricultural production and consequently become healthy. In this way health, population and environment education are interrelated in biological aspect. Socio-cultural aspect Socio-cultural aspect of environment includes social rites, norms and values; these are developed by human beings. Therefore, they are the parts of artificial environment. Social and cultural practices affect environmental situation. Hindu people regard rivers and some trees like peepal as symbol of God and appeal to preserve them. Every religion teaches us to care other animals and plants. These norms and values created by human beings help to conserve the environment and maintain health status. If environment is conserved, health status improves. If we do not throw garbage and dirt in to the river, river becomes clean and our health is not deteriorated. Similarly, when we celebrate feasts and festivals, we should take care of our health and environment. In the name of celebration, we should not take the food items that spoil our health. We should be careful about disposing garbage in appropriate places. Hence, health, population and environment education are interrelated in socio-culture aspect too. Economic aspect Health, population and environment educations are related in the economic aspect. When population increase rapidly, unemployment problem increases. With this, the lack of balanced diet, rest, proper environment increases and health status of a person worsens. Environmental degradation increases along with increasing poverty. People utilize natural resources in a random way in maximum amount, forest areas decrease and consequently problem of population occurs. People are involved in illegal hunting, smuggling of parts of animals which causes the declination of wildlife.