Health and Yoga Education

Health Education

International Conference on Research avenues in Social Science

The aim of health education is to help people achieve health by their own actions and efforts. Health education begins therefore with the interest of people in improving their condition of living and aims at developing a sense of responsibility of their own health betterment as individuals and as members of families, communities or governments says World Health Organisation. Good Health is a prerequisite to human productivity and the development process .A healthy community is the infrastructure upon which to build an economically viable society. The progress of society greatly depends on the quality of its people. Health is man’s greatest possession for it lays a solid foundation for his happiness. Charaka, the renowned physician said ‘Health is vital for ethical, artistic, material spiritual development of man’. It has been rightly said that health mind is in healthy body. Therefore, the student of higher education must be made aware of importance of health and so health education must be imparted to students the unhealthy practices like smoking drinking taking of drugs etc., would make the life of youth miserable. The concept of positive health and lifelong learning are relatively new concepts, which need to be promoted. Yoga helps in the overall development of the personality of an individual is achieved through higher education using an affective domain in addition to cognitive skills.

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