What are generally considered to be the basic minimum requirements of people for living a healthy and productive life? What is the responsibility of governments in trying to ensure this minimum to all?

Various methods have been calculated to derive basic minimum requirement to enable every people to lead a healthy and dignified life, by governments and WHO. But in general. it is agreed that the basic amount of nourishment needed to remain healthy, housing, supply of clean drinking water, education and a minimum wage would constitute an important part of these basic conditions.

This is an agreed norm worldwide that these basic needs to be fulfilled by the state. The responsibility of government to ensure this minimum to all are:

a. Private agencies should be encouraged to provide services in health, education, food etc and state/ government through policies should empower the people to buy those services

b. It must be duty of state to provide special help to sick and old.

c. The state should maintain a framework of laws and regulation to ensure that competition between individuals remains free of coercion