Unit 5: Family Life Education and Quality of Life
Questions
types to be asked from this unit 5
·
1 very short question (Understanding
type)
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1 Short Question
(Understanding type)
·
1 Long Question
(Application Type)
Lesson
1: Quality of Life and Its Components
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Quality of life is the
attaining a higher level of satisfaction, happiness and fulfillment of all
basic and extra needs.
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The components or elements
of quality life refer to the nutrition, food, sanitation, income, education,
security, social and religious beliefs etc.
Human
Needs
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Human Needs are
Classified as:
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Basic Needs
: Food, Shelter, Clothes, air, water
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Socio Cultural Needs:
Respect, Prestige, Security, Co-existence, cooperation, love
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Mental and
psychological needs: Education,
Responsibility, health services, employment, job opportunities, transportation,
communication, human rights
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Spiritual Needs:
Freedom of thought, Affiliation and faith, Social existence, Religious norms
and values
Introduction
to Quality of Life
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Quality of life is a
multidimensional concept and process.
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To attain a quality of
life a person has to attain a good level of satisfaction along with the
fulfillment of all needs.
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It varies on the basis
of time, place and situation.
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The quality of life is
defined on the basis of various aspects like : social, personal, educational,
economic, psychological, emotional etc.
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So, the quality of life
is degree of happiness and satisfaction in terms of these aspects of life.
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Therefore,
quality of life is the fulfillment of all basic as well as all additional needs
for satisfaction and survival.
Need
and Importance of Quality of Life
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To make a successful
and satisfied family life, a quality of life is the most important factor.
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Quality of life
indicates the standard of life.
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It reflects the overall
status of a nation and category of citizens like higher, middle and lower
class.
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In ancient society,
there was no any well developed situation of human being.
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Needs were limited and
no any priority would be given to the quality of life.
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But in the present
situation, it is the age of competition and development. So quality of life is
on priority of an individual’s, family, society and a nation.
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To summarize: Quality
of life is the higher standard of life of people with the fulfillment of
needs with comparison to the others.
The
needs and importance of quality of life are as follows:
- Fulfillment
of basic needs
- Attainment
of quality education
- Management
of health services, facilities and sanitation
- Facilities
for maternal and child care
- Feeling
of co-existence
- Opportunity
for income generation
- Fulfillment
of basic Needs:
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The needs which are
must for the survival of human beings like food, shelter, clothes.
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For the attainment of
quality of life, basic needs such as food, shelter, clothing etc. must be
fulfilled.
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If these needs are
fulfilled easily and affordably, then satisfaction, happiness of a family is
increased.
2.
Attainment of Quality
Education:
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There must be an
opportunity of easily getting quality education according to our needs and
interest.
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Quality education
supports to fulfill family needs, to become a successful person and income
generation during this competitive age.
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This helps economic
development of a family and to attain the higher level of peace and
satisfaction.
3.
Management of Health
Services, Facilities and Sanitation:
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There must be easily
access to the most emergency health services and facilities to each family member.
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Sanitation must be well
managed of a community, inside and outside of the home.
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Due to neat and clean
environment and availability of health facilities, all members of a family
become healthy and get quality of life.
- Facilities
of Maternal and Child Welfare:
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The intensive care must
be done during pregnancy, lactating mother and growing children up-to 5yeras.
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Cleaning related to
nutrition, health check up, immunization, sanitation must be provided.
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To attain a quality of
these above mentioned must be provided.
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It is impossible to
provide such facilities with low quality family life.
- Opportunity
for Income Generation and Employment:
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There must be an
opportunity of easily getting quality education, skill development and trainings according to our needs and interest
to all family members.
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Due to this everybody
can make themselves skilled and income generating.
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They get opportunities
for employment.
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This enhances quality
of life.
6.
Feeling of Co-Existence:
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There must not be any
discrimination among family members to get facilities and to fulfill needs.
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If there is gender
based discrimination and discrimination on other factors, quality life can’t be
achieved.
Sampled
Very Short Questions
1. What do you mean by
quality of life?
- What are the main
criteria of quality of life?
- What are the human
needs?
- Mention need and
importance of quality of life.
Sampled
Short Questions
- Mention need and
quality of life and how does opportunity for income generating activities
and employment determine quality of life.
- How do Health
facilities determine quality of life?
- How does feeling
of co-existence determine quality of life?
Elements
of Quality of Life
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To get quality of life
there must fulfillment of basic needs like nutrition, clothes, shelter,
education, health, drinking water etc. and some other additional needs easily.
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Quality of life is
affected by so many aspects like economy, socio-cultural, political,
educational etc. as well as available resources, environment and development.
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It is multidimensional
subject so affected by so many elements which are as follows:
- Nutritious
Food or Balanced Diet:
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To take a nutritious
and balanced diet is very important and compulsory factor.
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It determines social,
physical and mental health of family members.
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Lack of a balanced diet
causes malnutrition and different types of diseases.
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The human life becomes
painful.
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That’s why to get a
quality life, consumption of nutritious food and a balanced diet is compulsory.
2. Family Size:
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Family size is the
important factor for quality of life.
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It directly affects the
other elements of quality of life.
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If family is small,
then management of elements of quality of life such as clothes, education,
health, shelter etc. can easily be done.
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All members spend
happily life.
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If the family size is
large, there is economic burden to fulfill basic and other additional needs.
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It hampers quality of
life.
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That’s why there must
be small family size to attain quality of life.
3. Health:
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It is said that,
“Health is a Wealth.”
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So, health is
considered as an element of quality of life.
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Healthy citizens and
manpower are backbone for the development of a country.
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A nation must provide
to citizens and parents must think about good health of their children.
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It is only possible
when family size is small.
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Only being free from
diseases is not only the criteria of health.
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Following factors must
be fulfilled to get quality of life on the basis of health:
- Nutritious
and balanced diet.
- Sufficient
safe drinking water.
- Personal
and community sanitation.
- Environmental
sanitation and plantation.
- Regular
health check up and timely treatment.
- First
aid.
- Regular
Exercise, Yoga, games and sports.
4. Sanitation:
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To attain quality of
life our surrounding like house, water resources, garden, streets, school,
temples, lakes etc. must be neat and clean without any pollution and waste
thrown aside.
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Sanitation prevents the
diseases and increases the longevity of
human beings and makes family members active.
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Healthy and active
people participate in the developmental activities and contribute to the
attainment of quality of life.
5. Education:
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Education is most
precious wealth of the world.
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The family having
educated, skilled and capable members, such family members can easily fulfill
needs.
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Education makes life
standard and with a quality by accessing to the modern services.
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Education supports to
fulfill family needs, to become a successful person and income generation
during this competitive age.
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This helps economic
development of a family and to attain the higher level of peace and satisfaction.
6. Income and Employment Opportunity:
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The income helps in
attaining quality of life.
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As much as members are
involved in the income generating activities, so the family becomes
economically strong.
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Household working
persons should be inspired to run small scaled industries after getting skill
developed training.
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It increases income of
a family.
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All family members must
involve actively in the income generation activities.
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Because quality of life
increases on increasing income.
7. Safety & Security:
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Security is very
important factor of human beings.
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Guarantee of security
increases quality of life.
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Security creates the
environment to the people to do any work easily without fear.
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It increases personal,
social, professional involvement of the persons.
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To stop different
social crime security is necessary.
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Its government’s
responsibility, but citizens also must be care of it.
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Security allows spending
quality of life because it creates it fearless environment.
8. Saving:
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The income we generate
is used to fulfill the demands of family needs.
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During this process we
have to expense economically only on necessary materials and have to make the
habit of saving.
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It should be deposited
on bank which earns interest as well as protects from robbery and unnecessary
expenses.
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It creates a fund for
us on emergency and we don’t need to lend money on interest
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Savings can be invested
on other income generating business.
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This makes our economy
strong, makes easy to fulfill needs and lead to a quality life
9. Housing or Shelter:
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Housing is basic need
of human being.
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It is necessary to
human beings to be safe from wind, rain, sunlight heat, dangerous animals,
thieves etc.
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The size of houses also
determines quality of life.
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If family size is big
and house is small, then, there is scarcity of proper space. Many members have
to adjust in a room, which decreases the amount of fresh oxygen, and chances of
transferring of diseases.
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It causes unhealthy
environment of house and leads to reduction in the quality of life.
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For quality of life,
there must be sufficient space, separate kitchen, bedrooms, drawing room, store
with proper ventilation and light.
10. Social and Cultural Values:
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The social, cultural
and religious ethics affect directly on the quality of life.
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The superstitions
situated in our society like chhaupadi pratha, deuki pratha, untouchability
etc. impact negatively.
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Similarly, priority to
the son for the cause of heaven reduces the self confidence of daughters.
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Dowry system, slavery
system, use of wines, alcohols and unnecessary expenses in social gathering and
festivals are reducing quality of life and creating adverse impacts on society.
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The society where there
is no discrimination among children, no wrong practices, the quality of life is
better there.
11. Proper Spiritual Development:
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It is not enough being
physically healthy.
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To be healthy internal
soul and heart, a man has to think beyond this physical world.
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Who am I, what I should
do, what are my real duties…? Thinking of such questions really drives towards
the spiritual world.
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Many people are
becoming violent day by day now-a-days.
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Spiritual development
improves such behaviors and a man becomes disciplined.
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That’s why spiritual
development is very important factor for quality of life.
Sampled
Very Short Questions
- Mention any one
contribution of family size to the quality of life.
- Write any one
advantage of quality of life.
- Write any one main
criteria of quality of life.
- Normally, what
relationship is there between quality of life and a family size?
- Write any one
element of quality of life.
Sampled
Short Questions
- Present your any
four roles to obtain quality of life.
- Prepare a short
note on “Small family for quality of life”.
- Prepare a short
note on “Health and Sanitation for quality of life”.
- What are the
aspects that should be taken in consideration from the point of view of
health in order to maintain quality of life in family? Write any four
aspects.
- Nutritious and
balanced diet is essential for quality of life. Give reason.
- How does
Socio-Cultural values and norms affect the quality of life? Write with
examples.
- Describe any five
elements of quality of life in short.
- How does the type
and size of housing affect the quality of life?
- Why is sanitation
necessary for quality of life?
- Why education is
considered as one of the important elements of quality of life among all?
Describe it.
- Why is quality of
life necessary?
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