Health Education Paper 2 WASSCE (SC), 2017

Question 3

 

 

State four factors that affect growth in humans.    [4marks]

Observation

 

This question was attempted by many candidates and their performance was good. Most of the candidates answered it correctly, but few gave wrong answers such as dirty water, dirty fruit, looses of blood, overworking e.t.c.
The expected answers are as follows: 

FACTORS THAT AFFECT GROWTH IN HUMANS
-           nutrition
-           diseases/poor health/illness
-          accident/natural disaster
-           poor standard of living/socio-economic factor/poverty
-           heredity
-          bad posture
-           illiteracy/ignorance

  -           environment