Match List-I with List-II.
| List-I | List-II | ||
| (A) | Health | (I) | Proneness to fall ill |
| (B) | Global burden of diseases | (II) | The number of people dying prematurely due to a particular disease |
| (C) | Social infrastructure | (III) | It is a yardstick of human well-being physical as well as mental |
| (D) | Morbidity | (IV) | Includes education, health and housing |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → (A)-(III), (B)-(II), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)
All four terms come from the study of health as a part of a country’s infrastructure.
| List-I | List-II | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| (A) Health | (III) It is a yardstick of human well-being physical as well as mental | Health is more than the absence of disease. It is the ability to realise one’s potential, in body and mind. |
| (B) Global burden of diseases | (II) The number of people dying prematurely due to a particular disease | The global burden of disease (GBD) is an indicator. It counts early deaths from a disease and the years people spend disabled by it. |
| (C) Social infrastructure | (IV) Includes education, health and housing | Energy, transport and communication form economic infrastructure. Education, health and housing form social infrastructure. |
| (D) Morbidity | (I) Proneness to fall ill | Morbidity means proneness to fall ill. Clean water and sanitation reduce it. |
Note: This question is taken from the chapter ‘Infrastructure’ which was there in the pre-rationalised NCERT and has been deleted from subsequent editions of NCERT, including the NCERT book (2026-27). The chapter was also not in the CUET (UG) 2026 syllabus.
NCERT (Pre-rationalised): “8.2 What is Infrastructure? … Some divide infrastructure into two categories — economic and social. Infrastructure associated with energy, transportation and communication are included in the former category whereas those related to education, health and housing are included in the latter.… …Infrastructure contributes to economic development of a country both by increasing the productivity of the factors of production and improving the quality of life of its people. Inadequate infrastructure can have multiple adverse effects on health. Improvements in water supply and sanitation have a large impact by reducing morbidity (meaning proneness to fall ill) from major waterborne diseases and reducing the severity of disease when it occurs.… 8.6 Health … Health is not only absence of disease but also the ability to realise one’s potential. It is a yardstick of one’s well being. Health is the holistic process related to the overall growth and development of the nation.… …One study points out that India has about one-fifth of the world’s population but it bears a frightening 20 per cent of the global burden of diseases (GBD). GBD is an indicator used by experts to gauge the number of people dying prematurely due to a particular disease, as well as, the number of years spent by them in a state of ‘disability’ owing to the disease.… Recap … Health is a yardstick of human well-being, physical as well as mental.…” |