World migration report 2024
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
Women
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Administering illness
Hardly a democratic ideal
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Sharing knowledge
HIMAWANTI: Women of the Hindu Kush-Himalayas
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Phulmai s walk a day in the life of a headloader
Headloaders collectors of fuelwood in India's woodlands. On the one hand, seen as forest destroyers, on the other, they are the sole support of a multi billion dollar market. RICHARD MAHAPATRA follows one of them from dawn to dusk to learn about the str
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Respirable particulate levels in rural households of Andhra Pradesh, India : daily concentrations and exposures
Due to combustion of solid fuels, indoor air pollution seems to be a major contributor to disease in India, but few quantitative exposure assessment studies are available. This study quantified daily average concentrations of respirable particulates in 420 rural homes of Andhra Pradesh and recorded time activity data of 1400 individuals to reconstruct 24-hour average exposures.
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Economic burden of respiratory illness in rural Uttar Pradesh, India
This paper estimates the economic burden of respiratory illness in rural UP (Uttar Pradesh), a state in North India. This is based on a large comprehensive survey covering a sample of 7564 households in 6 districts and 51 villages in UP. The economic value of the days lost due to illness in one month is 4233 million rupees. Cleaner fuels, health education and better health care can avoid some of these expenditures.
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Household energy, gender and development: a case from north-east Bangladesh
Firewood, agricultural residue and animal dung are commonly called biomass fuels. In Bangladesh, biomass is obtained from three sources - trees, field crops and livestock. Biomass is important for the household purpose, mainly cooking. To save fuel consumption and time, and keep the kitchen clean and free of smoke, an improved cookstove programme has been started by the Government of Bangladesh.
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Pestering the glands
Study says women exposed to pesticides have impaired thyroid gland function
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Best among the worst
WHO identifies top 10 health risk factors
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Biased broadcast
Racial and gender imbalances in US news broadcast sources
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Beating the drought
How some villages stayed afloat even as neighbouring lands parched