Role of the Government in Health Test - 3

The increasing privatization of health services and the bad condition of government hospitals made it difficult for most of the poor people to get affordable and good health services. As the poor people do not have the resources to afford expensive private health services.

Costa Rica is an Central American country whose capital is San Jose.

PHC stands for Primary Health Centre.

• Living in a large and well-furnished house is not guaranteed healthy living. In fact, people living in large, well-furnished houses have been seen frequently suffering from common lifestyle diseases like obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, etc. Other ailments like allergies, poor mental health, lack of social life, etc. 
• Maintaining a healthy lifestyle, consuming a balanced diet, regular exercises and having a proper social life is a key to good health. 

So, option D is correct

On 11 December 1946, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) was established to aid education and the health of children. It is headquartered in New York, U.S.

There are several ways disease-causing agents get from one person to another:

• Airborne or droplet infection (e.g. colds, flu).
• Animal borne or insect borne infection (e.g. rabies, malaria, Lyme Disease).
• Blood borne infection (e.g. HIV, hepatitis).
• Food borne or water borne infection (e.g. salmonella, giardia).
• Sexually transmitted (e.g. chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis).
• Other direct contact (e.g. some kinds of warts, scabies).
• Indirect contact (e.g. colds and flu carried from person to person on dirty tissues, money, door knobs, phones, computer keyboards).

Community Health Centre CHCs: Community Health Centres are available is basic health unit in the urban areas.