Health and hygiene sheet4-mark answer frameWhat is hygiene? Explain personal and community hygiene.
How to lay out the answer. Follow the frame, then write it in your own words.
- 1 · Define. Hygiene means habits that keep the body and surroundings clean. Health (WHO) is physical, mental and social well-being.
- 2 · Personal hygiene.
- Daily bath, clean nails and clothes
- Handwashing with soap
- Brushing teeth twice a day
- Safe food and water, exercise, sleep
- 3 · Community hygiene.
- Safe drinking water
- Sewage disposal and toilets
- Garbage collection
- No stagnant water
- 4 · Link to daily life. Handwashing before lunch and boiled water prevent diarrhoea and typhoid.
- 5 · Close in one line. Good hygiene prevents disease for each person and for the whole community.
Scoring tip: Write four points each for personal and community hygiene.
