The 20th Tanzania Economic Update (TEU) shows that accelerating a fertility decline has the potential to enable the country to reap the benefits of a demographic dividend, which refers to how improved
Your Antibiotic is Sick: Bacteria are defying the most powerful medicines of all time. Is India ready for a world without antibiotics? The patient is going into shock. His blood pressure is falling.
Lucknow: In a bid to check high rates of child mortality, the Centre has decided to rope in private sector and corporate houses. Using corporate social responsibility as a tool to save children, the government
The National Nutrition Survey (NNS) 2011 has reported that 29.7 percent of children in the country are underweight, with some difference between those in the urban area and those in the rural areas.
Exposure to air pollution during pregnancy raises the odds of having low-birth-weight babies, a large international study has found. Researchers combined data on more than 3 million full-term singleton
Exposure Of Moms-To-Be To Car Fumes Tied To Low Birth Weight, Postnatal Mortality London: Scientists may have found the major reason why 1 in every 4 babies born in India (of the 2.6crore births in India annually) are of low weight (below 2.5kg). A worldwide study announced on Wednesday has shown that pregnant mothers exposed to air pollution emitted by vehicles are significantly more likely to have smaller babies. The study, the largest of its kind, analysed data from more than three million births in nine nations at 14 sites in the UK, Europe, North America, South America, Asia and Australia.
PMC Analysed 35 Child Deaths, Below One Year, Between May 2012 And January 2013 Pune: Low birth weight, a common cause of infant death in rural areas, is also the leading factor linked with infants’ death in Pune, states the latest child death audit report of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC). What is more worrying is that preventable diseases such as pneumonia, diarrhoea and jaundice continue to cause child deaths in the city.
The disease burden saw 14 per cent increase to 31,536 cases per district during October from September’s 27,587 cases. Ninety two districts reported 2,901,262 disease incidence in the observed month compared
More than 420,000 children under the age of five years die every year in the country due to both external and internal factors. The major causes of death among under-five children are birth Asphyxia
The proportion of women and children receiving health care in the poorest countries is increasing. Unfortunately, markers of improved health outcomes, such as falling maternal or newborn mortality, have
It may sound surprising. Despite public outcry over infant deaths at government hospitals last year and illegal practice of female foeticide across the state, some of the important health indicators in the state such as death rate, birth rate and infant mortality rate are better than the national average. However, child gender ratio and adult gender ratio in the state still remains dismal. As per the figures indicated in the Sample Registration System (SRS) issued by the Registrar General of India in its latest report, the comparative position of some important health indicators in the state vis-à-vis the national average altogether tells a different tale.
