Chapter 2
Understanding Health
I. Long Answer Questions
1. What are the common health needs of adolescents?
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2. List all the dimensions of health and explain the emotional and spiritual dimensions briefly.
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3. What are MDGs, and SDGs? How are these important for the world?
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4. What are the benefits of engaging in regular physical activity to the adolescents and the young?
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5. Explain the physical and mental dimensions of health.
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6. How can we get good mental health? Explain.
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II. Short Answer
Questions 1. List some reasons due to which the adolescents do not utilise health services.
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2. List important signs of stress and tension among the adolescents.
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3. What are the causes of lifestyle diseases?
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4. What are the benefits of setting positive health goals?
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5. How much population of India is disabled currently?
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III. Fill in the Blanks
1. Health is commonly understood as a state of absence of .
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2. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) helped in focusing global attention and resources towards basic issues.
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3. Health indicates a sound , and sound .
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4. of health refers to the ability of individuals to interact with others in the socio-cultural environment.
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5. Health of the children is a critical concern for all societies, since it contributes to their .
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6. Schools play a vital role in promoting the health and safety of young people and helping them to establish lifelong .
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7. _____ is a key determinant of energy expenditure, energy balance, and weight control.
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8. The SDGs, known as ‘Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’ is a set of ____ Global Goals with ____ targets between them.
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IV. State whether True or False
1. Health is influenced by biological, socio-cultural, economic, and environmental factors.
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2. Lifestyle diseases are—Typhoid, Malaria, and Tuberculosis.
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3. Mental health refers to the cognitive aspects of health that includes thinking, reasoning, remembering, imagining, and learning words.
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4. Childhood is the stage during which the foundation of healthy life is laid.
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5. Physical health and mental health are separable.
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6. Not everyone wants to look good and healthy.
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V. Skill based Questions
1. Find out the status of anaemia among the boys and girls in your State. What schemes have been developed by your State and the Government of India to tackle anaemia?
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2. You have read about healthy diet in previous classes. Make a diet chart for an adolescent boy in the age group of 14–17 years.
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3. Make a project on lifestyle diseases. What are the major lifestyle diseases? Discuss how one can prevent the lifestyle diseases.
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4. Find out the desired minimum levels of physical activities for children, adolescents, and adults in different age groups.
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