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
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Climate change threat to public health worse than polio, White House warns
Climate change poses a serious danger to public health – worse than polio in some respects – and will strike especially hard at pregnant women, children, low-income people and communities of color, an
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Two women — one pregnant — test positive for first known cases of Zika virus in Vietnam
HANOI – Vietnam has confirmed the country’s first two cases of Zika virus. The online Vnexpress newspaper quoted Vice Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long as saying two women, aged 64 and 33, tested
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India Has a Growing Obesity Problem, Study Shows
India’s women are more likely to be obese than their male counterparts, new research shows. There were 20 million obese women in India in 2014 compared with 9.8 million obese men, according to a study
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Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: a pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19·2 million participants
<p>Underweight and severe and morbid obesity are associated with highly elevated risks of adverse health outcomes. The estimated trends in mean body-mass index (BMI), which characterises its population
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Trends in socioeconomic disparities in a rapid under-five mortality transition: a longitudinal study in the United Republic of Tanzania
<p>The objective of the study was to explore trends in socioeconomic disparities and under-five mortality rates in rural parts of the United Republic of Tanzania between 2000 and 2011.</p> <p><strong><a
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Social consumption on health in Delhi
The report is based on the results of the State Sample of 71st National Sample Survey on ‘Health, Morbidity’. This survey was carried out by this Directorate during January - June 2014. The survey was
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Burning opportunity: clean household energy for health, sustainable development, and wellbeing of women and children
Household air pollution is the single most important environmental health risk worldwide, and women and children are at particularly high risk from exposure. This global report provides new data on the
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All India Report of Sixth Economic Census
The Sixth EC proposes to provide up to date information on number of establishments and number of persons employed therein, activity wise, of all the sectors (excluding crop production, plantation, public
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Focus on women also to impact food security- Survey
To make a real impact on food security and food production, agricultural spending and policy need to undergo a reorientation to focus more deeply on women farmers. The Ministry of Food and Agriculture
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Burning opportunity: clean household energy for health, sustainable development and the wellbeing of women and children- executive summary
A new report by the World Health Organization (WHO) says despite more than a decade of work to reduce domestic air pollution sources, progress toward universal access to clean cooking fuels remains far