If we understand medical care to be an input among many that produce “good health”, what other inputs are required? Which of these do you think is most important and why? Do you believe that society is providing enough resources to these inputs? Why or why not? How could it be done better?
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Good and hygienic environment, better and balanced diet, R&D on medical research, decent income so that we can purchase better medicines and medical care facilities etc are important. I think R&D is most important because some diseases can kill millions even if people have enough income good environment etc. Better drugs saved more lives than anything else.
No enough resources are not being provided. E. G we invest very less on good environment.
The best thing to do is to provide good environment and divert more proportion of gdp towards these inputs as Govt often invest more on defense than these inputs
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