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What significant improvements have been noticed in the health status of our population?

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Answered by 56saini36
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Of late, there have been a lot of improvements in the health status of the Indian population. A few of them include -
1. Diseases like smallpox, plague, rabies have been completely eradicated. Also, malaria has been kept under control.
2. Many measures are being taken to keep dengue, filaria, HIV, tuberculosis, and leprosy under control.
3. Many institutes and hospitals have come up to treat cancer as a specialty.
Answered by SUCCESS123
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Some significant improvements have been made in the health status of India’s population :

(a) Diseases like smallpox and plague have been eradicated. Malaria has been under control.

(b) Effective measures have been taken to control filaria, dengue fever, leprosy, blindness, tuberculosis and cancer, etc.

(c) Efforts are being made to reduce the rate of growth of HIV infection.

(d) Special health programmes like pulse polio.

(e) The infant mortality rate has been reduced from 148 per 1000 live birth in 1951 to 70 in 2000. Life expectancy has risen to about 62 years from 36 years in 1951.

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