Question | What do you understand by global burden of disease? |
Chapter | Infrastructure |
Class | Class 12 |
Subject | Economics (Indian Economic Development) |
Category | Indian Economic Development Class 12 Sandeep Garg Solutions |
Question – What do you understand by global burden of disease?
Answer –
GBD is an indicator used by experts to measure the number of people dying prematurely due to a particular disease as well as several years spent by them in a state of disability owing to the disease
- India has about 17% of the world’s population but it bears 20% of the global burden of disease.
- More than half of GDB is accounted for due to communicable diseases, such as diarrhea, malaria, and tuberculosis.
- Every year, around 5 lakh children die of waterborne diseases.
- Malnutrition and inadequate supply of vaccines lead to the death of 2.2 million children every year.
- At present, 38% of the PHC have required several doctors and only 30% of the PHC have sufficient stock of medicine.
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