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    The document discusses the public and private healthcare systems in India. It notes that public healthcare services are run by the government and available to both rural and urban populations, but have fewer facilities and staff compared to private services. Private healthcare is expensive and only accessible to 20% of Indians. Key issues with healthcare in India include lack of access to doctors in rural areas, unsafe drinking water leading to diseases, and high rates of malnutrition among children.

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    SSVM INSTITUTIONS

    CIVICS LN:2 ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN HEALTH


    Points to remember:
    • Health means our ability to remain free from illness.
    • In broader sense, health is a state of physical and mental
    wellbeing.
    • We have public and private health care system.
    • Public health care services are run by government. It is lesser in
    number and
    fewer staff as compared to private.
    • Private health care services are expensive and only 20% of the
    Indians can
    afford all types of health care.
    • Kerala provides good health care to people of the state.
    • Costa Rica in North America is considered to be one of the
    healthiest countries
    in the continent.
    Answer in short.
    1. What are the negative aspects of health care in India?
    The negative aspects health care’s in India are:
    • Rural people face the crisis of doctors because most doctors settle
    in urban
    areas. They have to travel long distances to reach a doctor. About five
    lakh
    people die from tuberculosis every year. Almost two million cases of
    malaria
    are reported every year.
    • Clean drinking water is not available to all. As a result poor people
    easily
    become prey to various water borne diseases such as diarrhoea,
    worms,
    hepatitis, etc.,
    • Half of all children in India do not get adequate food to eat and are
    under nourished.

    2. Write down the main features of public health system.


    • It provides quality health care services either free or at a low cost
    so that even
    the poor can seek treatment
    • It takes action to prevent the spread of disease such as
    tuberculosis,
    malaria, jaundice, etc.. Time to time it takes up a campaign to see that
    mosquitoes do not breed in water - coders, roof tops etc.
    • This system is available in both rural and urban areas.
    Answer in detail:
    1. Compare public health services with those of private services.
    • Public health services are run by the government while private
    health services
    are managed by the individuals or companies.
    • Public health services are found both in rural and urban areas. But
    private
    health services are concentrated in urban areas.
    • Public health services provide facilities either free or at a low cost
    that even
    poor can seek treatment easily. Thus money making is not a goal of
    public
    health services. So far private health services are concerned, they are
    run
    mainly for profit. They usually prescribe expensive medicines,
    unnecessary medicines, injections or saline bottles when tablets and
    simple medicines can suffice.
    • People have to wait for hours in a long queue at the government
    hospitals.
    But private hospitals are maintained properly where no such long
    queues
    are found.
    Additional questions:
    1. What do we need to prevent and treat illness?
    2. What is full form of RMPs? Where are they found?
    3. What problems do we face in private hospitals? Discuss.
    4. Mention some positive aspects of health care in India?
    5. How can you say that adequate health care is not available to all?
    6. What did the court say in case of Hakeem Sheik?
    7. What is Costa Rica approach? Explain.
    8. What are the major changes made by the Kerala government in
    1996?

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