NCERT solutions for Health and Physical Education [English] Class 11 chapter 2 - Understanding Health [Latest edition]

• List actions and activities to make ‘greener’ lifestyle, at home and at school.
• Review and find out how far you are able to achieve the objective of becoming ‘greener’.
• Motivate others to adopt life style which promote greening the environment.

Discuss with your classmates—how and why excessive use of social networking site is depressing and self harming?

• Prepare a chart on the Disability Act 2016.
• Observe your surroundings and analyse how far the act has been implemented.
• List the actions you can take and share with your classmates.
• Collect information about various programmes and schemes for differently-abled individuals and share it in the morning assembly.

Does your school provide training to be a peer facilitator? If not, please discuss it with your class teacher. Ask your school to take up the training of peer group educator/facilitator.

You have read about lifestyle diseases in your previous classes. Can you list some of these? Also discuss about their prevention.

What are the common health needs of adolescents?

List all the dimensions of health and explain the emotional and spiritual dimensions briefly.

What are MDGs?

What are MDGs, and SDGs? How are these important for the world?

What are the benefits of engaging in regular physical activity to the adolescents and the young?

Explain the physical dimensions of health.

Explain the mental dimensions of health.

How can we get good mental health? Explain.

List some reasons due to which the adolescents do not utilise health services.

List important signs of stress and tension among the adolescents.

What are the causes of lifestyle diseases?

What are the benefits of setting positive health goals?

How much population of India is disabled currently?

Health is commonly understood as a state of absence of __________.

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) helped in focusing global attention and resources towards basic __________ issues.

Health indicates a sound __________, and sound __________.

__________ of health refers to the ability of individuals to interact with others in the socio-cultural environment.

Health of the children is a critical concern for all societies, since it contributes to their __________.

Schools play a vital role in promoting the health and safety of young people and helping them to establish lifelong __________.

__________ is a key determinant of energy expenditure, energy balance, and weight control.

The SDGs, known as ‘Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’ is a set of __________ Global Goals with __________ targets between them.

State whether true or false:

Health is influenced by biological, socio-cultural, economic, and environmental factors.

State whether true or false:

Lifestyle diseases are-Typhoid, Malaria, and Tuberculosis.

State whether true or false:

Mental health refers to the cognitive aspects of health that includes thinking, reasoning, remembering, imagining, and learning words.

State whether true or false:

Childhood is the stage during which the foundation of healthy life is laid.

State whether true or false:

Physical health and mental health are separable.

State whether true or false:

Not everyone wants to look good and healthy.

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?

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.

Make a project on lifestyle diseases. What are the major lifestyle diseases? Discuss how one can prevent the lifestyle diseases.

Find out the desired minimum levels of physical activities for children, adolescents, and adults in different age groups.