The role of health in human capital any 5 points
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1. The health of a person is indispensable for realizing one's well being and potential which accordingly helps him increase efficiency and productivity in the job he does. A sick person may not be able to work, thereby affecting their productivity.
2.Good health increases learning capability of a worker since being fit, he is able to comprehend facts and learn techniques to reduce his efforts in job.His job is adversely affected in his absence, in case he/she are ailing.
3.Health doesn't solely mean physiological health it also refers to psychological well-being.Being mentally fit is imperative to take shrewd, sagacious decisions that would allow him to make the best out of the skills possessed by him.
4.If an individual who is the sole breadwinner of his family falls sick, he/she are unable to uphold their family.Their illness prevents them from sustaining their family thereby causing them to starve and become undernourished.This inability of theirs can drive their family to poverty.
5.The well being of an individual helps him cut down his expenditure on medicines and visits to doctor.If a person eats healthy food, exercises regularly he/she can stay mentally and physically fit reducing the chances of he/she falling sick.Therefore, good health,helps reduce money on medicines and appointments to doctor.