In the area of health, adult education programmes emphasize upon issues like environmental sanitation, personal hygiene, common health problems due to communicable and non-communicable diseases, precautions for good health, family welfare, family planning methods, public health services and facilities, population education, gender equity, age at marriage, nutrition, reproductive health. Health issues are covered in adult education primers, post-literacy and continuing education materials, training programmes, extension activities of government and non-government agencies, mass media etc....