Question

Give 5 points to illustrate the importance of health for a person and for a country.

Answer 1

Health is an indispensable part of human capital formation. A healthy person is an asset to the society. Improved health increases the efficiency and quality of labour, which finally increases the productivity.This leads to the growth of the economy.

In order to provide proper health to the people, government has made arrangements for distribution of food grains at low prices, established hospitals and health care centres in the rural and urban areas to provide free medical treatment and distribute free medicines etc. Public hospitals are mushrooming with the increase in population.