Discuss the significance of health care in social development of a country.

Significance of health care : Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being. It does not mean absence of disease. Rather it means a sound physical and mental state of the individual. It is a yard-stick of one's well-being. There is always a sound mind lies in a sound body. Health is the essential requirement for making efficient, active and competent working force.

Health helps indirectly to the economic development by supplying active, energetic and healthy working force which activates the entire production process. Human element is the essential factor of production. All machines, equipments and tools require men to operate them. Without energetic force and healthy man-force, they are insignificant. A healthy man is an asset whereas a sick man is a liability.