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Political ScienceClass 7All

What are communicable diseases?

Communicable diseases are those that spread from one person to another through air, water, food, or physical contact. Examples include tuberculosis, malaria, cholera, and diarrhoea. These diseases can spread rapidly if proper precautions are not taken. Therefore, prevention through hygiene, vaccination, and awareness is very important.

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What do you mean by private?

In contrast, private health services are run by individuals or companies for profit. These hospitals and clinics usually provide better facilities and quicker services, but they are often expensive and not affordable for everyone.

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What is the full form O.P.D?

The Out Patient Department (OPD) is an important part of hospital services. OPD stands for “Out Patient Department,” where patients receive treatment without being admitted to the hospital. It helps in providing quick medical consultation and reduces the burden on hospitals.

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Explain the public health services?

To ensure the well-being of people, the government provides public health services. These services consist of a chain of health centers and hospitals run by the government. Their main aim is to provide affordable and accessible healthcare to all citizens, especially the poor. These include Primary Health Centres (PHCs), district hospitals, and government medical institutions. Public health services are funded by the taxes paid by citizens.

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What do you mean by health?

Health is a very important aspect of human life. It means our ability to remain free from illness and injuries and to live a physically and mentally fit life. A healthy person can work efficiently and contribute positively to society. Therefore, maintaining good health is essential for overall development.

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Who is a consumer?

Ans: Consumer: This refers to the person for whom the goods or products have been made and who pays money to buy and use them.

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Explain the meaning of following terms.

Brand: This refers to a special identification or name that is associated with a product. Such identification is created through the process of advertising. Lifestyle: When related to advertising, this word refers to people’s lives being identified by the products they own, the clothes they wear, the places they eat in, etc.

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Advertising is more than just selling things” – Explain.

Ans. Advertising is more than just selling things, because they tell us how we should live our lives, what we should aspire and dream for , how we should express our love , what it means to be smart, successful and beautiful. It time for thinking about advertising critically.

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How does advertising divert our attention from the social issues?

Ans. Advertising by focusing on the lives of the rich and famous diverts our mind from focusing on the social issues such as poverty, discrimination and dignity all of which are central to the functioning of equality in a democracy.

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How does the advertisement affect the poor people?

Ans. Advertisements often show the lifestyle of the rich people in order to attract them to buy their brands. While the democracy ensures that everybody should lead a life of dignity, advertising tends to promote a certain lack of respect for the poor. The faces of the poor people are not shown in the advertisements and we tend to dismiss their lives as worthless.

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Why in advertisements cricket heroes or film stars are used?

Ans. In the advertisements cricket heroes or film stars are shown, because people may feel tempted to buy the particular products because the persons whom the people consider as their heroes tell that a particular product is worth buying.

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How do advertisements influence the people?

Ans. Advertisements often target our personal emotions and link them to products to influence the way in which the people value themselves as persons.

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What is the meaning of the term ‘brand’?

Ans. The word ‘brand’ is related to the advertisements, in a broad sense, branding means stamping a product with a particular name or sign. The purpose of branding a product is to differentiate it from other products in the market.

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What is the purpose of the advertisements?

Ans. Advertisements are done to draw the attention of people to various products and to describe them positively in order to sell out.

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Expalin the meaning of the following terms

Ans. Publish: This refers to news reports, articles, interviews, stories, etc., that are printed in newspapers, Magazines and books for a wide audience to read. Censorship: This refers to the powers that government has to disallow media from publishing or showing certain stories. Broadcast: In this chapter this word is used to refer to a TV or radio programme that is widely transmitted. Public protest: When a large number of people come together and openly state their opposition to some issue. Organising a rally, starting a signature campaign, blocking roads etc. are some of the ways in which this is done.

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The media ‘sets the agenda’- Explain.

Ans. It is told so because the media influences our thoughts, feelings and actions, and brings those issues to our attention. Due to the significant influence it plays in our lives and in shaping our thoughts, it is commonly said that the media ‘sets the agenda’.

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What are reasons that prevent the media from being independent?

Ans. (i) The first reason is that the government has no its own media. When the government prevents either a news item, or scenes from a movie, or the lyrics of a song from being shared with the larger public, this is called as censorship. (ii) The second reason is that the media also wants to focus on a particular aspect of a story, because they believe that this makes the story interesting and attracts the attention of the mass.

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What is the meaning of an independent media?

Ans. An independent media means that no one should control and influence its coverage news. No one should tell the media what can be included and what should be excluded in the news. The news given by a media should be reliable and not biased.

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What is a balanced report?

Ans. A balanced report is one that discusses all points of view of a particular story and expects the readers to ponder over it. To give a balanced report depends o the media being independent.

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What kind of role does media play in a democracy?

Ans. (i) In a democracy, the media plays a vital and important role in providing news and discussing events taking place in the country and the world. It is on the basis of this information that citizens can, for example, learn how government works. (ii) they can take action on the basis of these news stories. Some of the ways in which they can do this is by writing letters to the concerned minister, organising a public protest, starting a signature campaign, asking the government to rethink its programme, etc.

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