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of diseases etc. Sometimes, people over consume the food substances during feasts and
          parties and suffer from various health problems.

          d.  Economic aspect

          Economic aspect is related with the job opportunities
          and income generation. The economic condition of
          people seriously affects their health and environment.
          Due to poverty, people misuse  the resources  in
          environment which leads towards  deforestation,
          increase of pollution, spreading of diseases,
          occurrence of natural calamities, environment
          degradation.  Similarly,  poor  people  cannot  afford
          nutritious  food  and  suffer  from  various  diseases   Fig: 11
          very often. Moreover, they cannot treat the diseases         Cutting tree
          properly and suffer a lot.

          e.  Science and technological aspect

          Science  and  technological aspect  is  related with
          development of science and technology. Due to
          development of science  and technology, there
          has  been improvement in health sector,  invention
          of medicines, control over diseases, extension of
          life expectancy, improvement in communication,
          invention of equipments, development of technologies
          etc. They have  made  massive  change in health
          sector, environmental conservation as well as for the   Fig: 12
          population. Similarly, negative use of science and            Nuclear test
          technology has developed nuclear weapons, chemical
          weapons, biological weapons, missiles, launchers, etc. Use of  missiles, launchers, etc. in
          wars kills many people. Use of chemical and biological
          weapons has serious health impacts on people. Above
          all, use of the nuclear weapons destroys the entire
          environment.

          f.  Political aspect

          Political aspect is related with  the  development
          of rules and regulations  at  the  government and   Fig: 13
          administrative level. Actually, political parties form          Speech
          the government and rule the nation. Hence, all the
          political parties and political leaders should be responsible enough for the formulation
          of rules and regulations to control population, to produce healthy manpower, to develop
          health services as well as for the conservation of resources in environment.


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