HEALTHY POPULATION A KEY PILLAR TO ENSURE RESILIENT FUTURE: ECONOMIC SURVEY 2025-26

• Chapter of the Economic Survey 2025-26 (Ministry of Finance, Department of Economic Affairs) framing public health as human-capital infrastructure essential for sustained productivity and growth.
• Documents India's outperformance of global trends on maternal, infant and child mortality while flagging emerging threats: obesity, ultra-processed foods (UPFs), digital addiction, mental health.
• UPSC relevance: cuts across GS-II (Health, Government schemes) and GS-III (Economic Survey, S&T applications); rich in MCQ-grade numbers.