UPMSP High School Human Science case studies
UPMSP High School Human Science · Put your knowledge to work in context.
Human Science (Manav Vigyan) is an elective subject in the Uttar Pradesh Board's High School (Class 10) curriculum. It treats the human body not as pure biology but as everyday health practice: how the skeletal, muscular, digestive, respiratory, circulatory, excretory, nervous, endocrine and reproductive systems are built and what they do, and then what a person must actually do to keep them working - balanced diet, clean water, sanitation, immunization, first aid, home nursing, maternal and child care, and sensible consumer choices. The UPMSP High School Human Science case studies are 5 cases and about 4,048 words.
1A Tight Plaster Cast in a Class 9 Student
Sunita, 14, is a Class 9 student in a block town. Eleven days ago she fell while cycling and broke the bone in her left forearm; the doctor at the CHC set it and put on a plaster cast running from below the elbow to the knuckles.
585 words, about 3 min2Feeding Five People on Two Hundred Rupees a Day
The Verma family in a semi-urban mohalla has five members: the father (38, a daily-wage mason), the mother (32, seven months pregnant with her third child), a daughter (9), a son (5) and the father's mother (65). The family's food budget is about Rs 200 a day.
823 words, about 4 min3Chest Heaviness on a Roof in June
In the second week of June, Ram Kishore, a 48-year-old mason, has been working on a concrete roof since 8 a.m. he sits down and complains of heaviness behind the breastbone that spreads to his left arm and jaw.
868 words, about 4 min4A Smear-Positive Father and a Seven-Month-Old Infant
In a two-room village house live Dinesh (40, a labourer), his wife (35), their three children aged 8, 5 and a 7-month-old infant who is exclusively breastfed, and Dinesh's mother. Dinesh has had a cough for seven weeks with evening fever, night sweats and a loss of 6 kg.
866 words, about 4 min5Hot Dal on a Six-Year-Old's Chest
A 6-year-old boy in a village pulls a pan of hot dal off the stove and it spills over his right forearm and chest. His mother, panicking, tears off his shirt, taking some skin with it, and smears toothpaste over the burn.
906 words, about 5 min