What do you understand by global burden of disease?

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

  1. India has about 17% of the world’s population but it bears 20% of the global burden of disease.
  2. More than half of GDB is accounted for due to communicable diseases, such as diarrhea, malaria, and tuberculosis.
  3. Every year, around 5 lakh children die of waterborne diseases.
  4. Malnutrition and inadequate supply of vaccines lead to the death of 2.2 million children every year.
  5. 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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