What is a ‘global burden of disease’?
Global Burden of Diseases (GBD) is an indicator used by experts to gauge the number of people dying prematurely, due to particular diseases as well as the number of years spent by them in a state of disability owing to the disease.
Describe the meaning of public health. Discuss the major public health measures undertaken by the state in recent years to control diseases.
What is the significance of ‘energy’? Differentiate between commercial and non-commercial sources of energy.
Justify that energy crisis can be overcome with the use of renewable sources of energy.
Infrastructure contributes to the economic development of a country. Do you agree? Explain.
Discuss the reforms which have been initiated recently to meet the energy crisis in India.
Explain the two categories into which infrastructure is divided. How are both interdependent?