Telangana SCERT Solution Class VIII (8) Social Studies Chapter 9 Public Health and the Government.
1.) Correct the false statements
a.) Most rural areas have trained doctors.
Answer
False
Most rural areas have untrained doctors.
b.) There are more facilities in private hospitals.
Answer
True
c.) Nutritious food helps in improving the health scenario.
Answer
True
d.) Some doctors involve in unnecessary treatments to make money.
Answer
True
2.) Which of the following facilities will you include in basic public facilities: Which Jayamma uses.
a.) Drives Scooter to school. b. Sends her child to Anganwadi. c. Owns a television set. d. Has a mobile phone. e. Sends letters through post office.
Answer
The public facilities used by Jayamma are
b.) Sends her child to Anganwadi which is a rural school and a public property.
e.) Sends letters through post office which are used by everyone in the society.
The rest are private facilities.
3.) Identify the sentences in this chapter that discuss the role of the government in providing public health.
Answer
Public health infrastructure is a public good, which implies that it is not owned by one individual and is shared by all people in society.The role of the government are:
- The Government should build and manage the public hospital better as private hospital are focused in profit and not service.
- The Government should provide with proper and cheaper drinking water
- Government should provide free or subsidised health care facilities, affordable medicine.
- Should let Training medical professionals to serve in these hospitals.
- The government should ensure that these public facilities are made available to everyone at affordable cost.
4.) Discuss which among the following measures will you consider as instances – OR not an instance of improving the healthcare. Write down the reasons for your answer.
a.) TB patients are given free medicines. b. In some villages clean drinking water facilities have been arranged. c. Shopkeepers sell medicines for cold, fever, headache etc. d. The government provides foodgrains in Fair Price shops.
Answer
The following measure can improve the health condition of the people as it will provide them with medicine, clean water, and food to eat which will automatically improve their health conditions. The measures which will be considerfor improving the healthcare are :
a.) TB patients are given free medicines
b.) In some villages cleandrinking water facilities have been arranged
d.) The government provides food grains in Fair Price shops.
Except: c. Shopkeepers sell medicines for cold, fever, headache etc as the shopkeeper sells for his own profit it won’t improve healthcare of everyone.
5.) Priyamvada runs a private hospital. This has more facilities than that are available in a government hospital. Satyanarayana works as a government doctor in a mandal. Can you write an imaginary dialogue between them about access to health services?
Answer
Priyamvada- hello Satyanarayana being a doctor how can you work in such working condition and with such low money for your service.
Satyanarayana- hi Priyamvada I know that you own a private hospital with the best modern facilities and you earn a huge amount of money but that’s not why I became a doctor my purpose was different.
Priyamvada- what kind of purpose? Being a doctors is to earn profit right.
Satyanarayana- My friend you are lost in the greed of money my purpose as a doctor is to save the life of people not to earn profit. Human life is valuable than money and in rural areas the requirement of doctors is high as people don’t have money to visit a doctor.
Priyamvada- Thanks Dr. Satyanarayana you have open my eyes from now I would also become a doctor who serves his purpose.
6.) Health is not limited to providing medicines. In this chapter there are other aspects of health that are mentioned (like clean water etc). Bring them together and write a paragraph about such aspects.
Answer
People in order to improve their health are provided with clean drinking water facilities, foodgrains in Fair Price shops, Medical camps is provided to the needy, Proper housing facilities,public schools this will automatically improve their health conditions.
7.) Following figure shows how people get money for hospitalisation in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Nearly 65% of the people below poverty line have to borrow money.Identify this in the chart and mark the percentage. Those above poverty line spend 45 % of the hospitalisation expenditure from their savings. Those above poverty line borrow only 35%. Identify these in the chart and mark the percentage. Can you also roughly estimate share of other means through which people meet their hosptialisation expenses in the chart below?
Answer
The chart is as follows:
Below the poverty line | Above the poverty line |
Income 7% | Income 11% |
Borrow 65% | Borrow 35% |
Savings 10% | Savings 45% |
assets 11% | assets 3% |
Others 7% | Others 3% |
Reimbursement 3% |
People below and above the poverty line use savings for expenses of their hosptialisation.
8.) Conduct a survey on government welfare schemes on health. List the beneficiaries in your area?
Answer
Following are the list:
Govt. welfare schemes |
Beneficiaries |
ESIS (Employment state insurance) scheme -provides with medical insurances for People working in public & private companies, factories. |
Working population and their families. |
Aamaadmibimayojana scheme provides with financial help. |
Rural landless household. |
Aarogya Sri Scheme |
White card holders |
Reimbursement facilities scheme |
To State/Central government employees |
9.) List questions you wish to ask the Health worker of your area on prevention of contagious diseases in your area.
Answer
The question are:
1.) What is the preventive medicine for Cholera?
2.) How can we prevent Malaria?
3.) How can malnutrition be prevented?
4.) Is there any preventive medicine for Typhoid?
5.) Why do kids take polio vaccines?
10.) What type of services would be rendered by ‘108’ vehicles emergencies?
Answer
All types of emergency cases are handled by 108 services such as pregnancy cases, accidental, unconscious, paralysis, inflation, fever, heart attack and all types of emergencies.
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