NCERT Solutions for class 7 Civics Role of government in health

Exercise

1. In this chapter you have read that health is a wider concept that illness. Look at this quote from the Constitution and explain the term ‘living standard’ and ‘public health’ in your own words.

Ans: “living standard” and “public health” both are interrelated. Public health means that every citizen of India must have equal opportunity to access the health care services at low price so that they can be treated as soon as possible.

If the health of country’s people is good, they can easily improve their living standard. A healthy person can work to earn a livelihood that increases his living standard over time.

Whereas, an unhealthy person can’t work to earn a livelihood and he won’t be able to improve his living standard.

Even the role of government is very important in “public health” and “living standard”. Government can take necessary steps to disinfect the disease prone areas, also they can setup health centers at every village to made health care facility easily accessible to everyone.

2. What are the different ways through which the government can take steps to provide healthcare for all? Discuss.

Ans: Government can take the following steps:

1. They can set up Primary Health centre to all villages.
2. Modern technologies and machines can be adopted to provide better health facilities to everyone.
3. Government must focus on improving the quality of treatment provided by the public hospitals.
4. Government must ensure that patients get timely treatment at low cost at public hospitals.
5. Government should take initiative to control the fees that private hospitals charge.

3. What differences do you find between private and public health services in your area? Use the following table to compare and contrast these.

Ans:

Facility	Affordability	Availability	Quality
Private	Expensive	Easily available in urban area only	Provide good quality treatment
Public	Low cost or free	Not easily available in both urban and rural area	Doesn’t provide good quality service

As per the table given above it clearly states that public health care services need upgradation. Although, public sector provide health facility at low cost or sometimes for free but they’re not easily access in both rural area and urban areas.

The private health care service is available on in urban areas however they provide very expensive treatment.

4. Improvement in water and sanitation can control many diseases. Explain with the help of examples.

Ans: Many diseases are directly related with water. Clean and easily accessible drinking water can prevent many water borne diseases. Sanitation is also important because it can prevent many diseases which are spread by the houseflies, mosquitoes etc.

Examples:

1. A garbage free area will stop the breeding of mosquitoes that will ultimately stop spreading of dangerous diseases in that locality.
2. Chemical factories operating near rivers must be shut down or setup somewhere else to prevent the water pollution, so that people can get clean drinking water.

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