Evaluate the extentent to which government has contributed to health care
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Explanation:
The new agenda for Public Health in India includes the epidemiological transition (rising burden of chronic non-communicable diseases), demographic transition (increasing elderly population) and environmental changes. The unfinished agenda of maternal and child mortality, HIV/AIDS pandemic and other communicable diseases still exerts immense strain on the overstretched health systems.
Silent epidemics: In India, the tobacco-attributable deaths range from 800,000 to 900,000/year, leading to huge social and economic losses. Mental, neurological and substance use disorders also cause a large burden of disease and disability. The rising toll of road deaths and injuries (2—5 million hospitalizations, over 100,000 deaths in 2005) makes it next in the list of silent epidemics. Behind these stark figures lies human suffering.[2]
Health systems are grappling with the effects of existing communicable and non-communicable diseases and also with the increasing burden of emerging and re-emerging diseases (drug-resistant TB, malaria, SARS, avian flu and the current H1N1 pandemic). Inadequate financial resources for the health sector and inefficient utilization result in inequalities in health. As issues such as Trade-Related aspects of Intellectual Property Rights continue to be debated in international forums, the health systems will face new pressures.
The causes of health inequalities lie in the social, economic and political mechanisms that lead to social stratification according to income, education, occupation, gender and race or ethnicity.[3] Lack of adequate progress on these underlying social determinants of health has been acknowledged as a glaring failure of public health.
In the era of globalization, numerous political, economic and social events worldwide influence the food and fuel prices of all countries; we are yet to recover from the far-reaching consequences of the global recession of 2008.