Although the effects of emotional stressors are usually brief, extreme

reactivity to anxiety, hostility, and anger may indicate a predisposition

to develop hypertension. Not surprisingly, the strongest relations
between emotions and blood pressure have been found for
unexpressed anger and hostility. Fortunately, research has shown that
people can learn to reduce such tendencies.

In one study, Gidron and Davidson (1996) identified a group of

participants who scored high on measures of cynical hostility, the
harmful component of the Type A behavior pattern. Half of these
persons were assigned to an eight-week intervention specifically
designed to modify cynical hostility; the other half (the control group)
received information about the link between hostility and heart disease
and about ways to reduce hostility.

Participants assigned to the intervention condition attended weekly

meetings, monitored their hostility daily, and received instruction in the
use of specific coping skills; for example, they learned to use
relaxation exercises and practiced ways to vent their angry feelings.
The participants in the intervention group showed significant
improvement on measures of cynical hostility, whereas participants
assigned to the control group did not.

5. Essay on Major Achievements of Health Sector:

Following are the major achievement of health sector:
1. National Rural Health Mission:
(i) Large number of medical and paramedical staff has been taken on
contract to augment the human resources. During the year 2009-10,
about 2475 MBBS doctors, 160 specialists, 7136 ANMs, 2847 staff
nurses, 2368 AYUSH doctors and 2184 AYUSH paramedics were
appointed.
(ii) Mobile Medical Units increased to 363 districts in 2009-10 from 310
in 2008-09 to provide diagnostic and outpatient care closer to hamlets
and villages in remote areas.