Discuss health related indicators of poverty. - Vidyadip

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Discuss health related indicators of poverty.

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According to modern economy not only economic factor but also health and education were consider.
$(1)$Malnutrition:

The lack of calories, protein, carbohydrate, vitamin and minerals in human body are called malnutrition.
The people who are poor do not get all these things.

$(2)$Life expectancy and Infant Mortality Rate:

The average life expectancy of people in a country is based on nutritive food, cleanliness, pure drinking water and health service.
Poor people are deprived of such facilities.
So they have low life expectancy.
Same way due to low health facilities the Infant Mortality Rate was higher.

$(3)$Medical facilities:

The scarcity of doctor, nurse, compounder are affecting medical service.
In developing countries due to the scarcity, people illness level increase repidly.
E.g. in developing countries normally $1.7$ crore people suffer from Malaria and $TB.$
Due to lack of medical service. $90\%$ of $AIDS$ patient are there from developing countries.

$(4)$Drinking Water:

The health is related with drinking water.
Due to lack of drinking water people get water based diseases that increases their poverty.

$(5)$Provision of Toilets:

Lack of Toilets prone to water borne and contagious diseases.
$34\%$ of Indian people do not have Toilet facilities in their house.
Lack of cleanliness and physical weakness, keeps the production and productivity at lower level, which is one of factors of rise in poverty.

$(6)$Housing:

In developing countries due to lack of housing facilities people live in dirty hutments and slums.

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