Page 2 - Home Assignment-Environment and sustainable development

 Promotion of health and provision of essential drugs

 Immunisation

 Educating the people about identifying, preventing and controlling diseases.

2. Secondary Healthcare:- Health care institute having better facilities for
surgery, x-ray, ECG are called Secondary Healthcare institutes.Patients
are referred here when their condition is not managed by PHC.
3. Tertiary Healthcare:- In this sector, there are the hospitals which have
advanced level equipment and medicines and undertake all the complicated health
problems. which could not be managed by primary and secondary hospitals.
Expansion of health infrastructure has resulted in the eradication of smallpox,
guinea worms and the near eradication of polio and leprosy.

Development of health Services in India:-
(i) Decline in Death Rate
(ii) Rise in expectancy of life
(iii) Decline in Infant Mortality Rate
(iv) Control over Deadly Diseases.

Health as an Emerging Challenge:-
(i) Unequal distribution of health care services.
(ii) Increasing privatisation of health services.
(iii) Poor sanitation Level
(iv) Poor upkeep and maintenance of govt. health centres and poor management.