Social medicine refers to medical practices that aim to prevent or delay disease.
Which of the following options is true in regards to the above statement?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option 2: The statement is false
The amount of money spent on preventive medicine (vaccination), curative medicine (medical intervention during illness), social medicine (spread of health literacy) and provision of clean drinking water and good sanitation are the various forms of health expenditures. Health expenditure directly increases the supply of healthy labour force and is, thus, a source of human capital formation.