WHO published its World health statistics report 2025, revealing the deeper health impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on loss of lives, longevity and overall health and well-being. In just two years, between 2019 and 2021, global life expectancy fell by 1.8 years—the largest drop in recent history— reversing a …
In the year that saw the establishment of a new UN agency for women, minority and indigenous women faced systematic violence, discrimination and marginalization. Both their identity as women and their membership of disadvantaged communities placed them at risk. This year’s edition of State of the World’s Minorities and Indigenous …
Using the most comprehensive data file ever compiled on air pollution, water pollution, environmental regulations, and infant mortality from a developing country, the paper examines the effectiveness of India’s environmental regulations. The air pollution regulations were effective at reducing ambient concentrations of particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen dioxide. The …
Infant mortality in Equatorial Guinea appears to have declined since the discovery of oil in the 1990s, according to an assessment by the World Bank and other international agencies. Revising and ironing out contradictions in previous data, some of which found that infant mortality had risen despite an influx of …
It may be split into three instalments CHENNAI: The poll promise of increasing the maternity assistance amount for pregnant women will mean nearly doubling the budget as the State prepares to dole out Rs.12,000. Hitherto, Rs.6000 was being given to pregnant women, split into instalments of Rs.3000, during maternity and …
Focusing on population stabilisation and meeting the unmet demands of contraceptives, the mission steering group (MSG) of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) has decided to utilise Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) for delivery of contraceptives at the homes of beneficiaries. For this, ASHAs can charge one rupee for a …
GANDHINAGAR: After successfully completing the e-gram project of providing basic IT connectivity to all the district, taluka and village panchayats, the Gujarat government is now all set to launch a comprehensive e-panchayat project in order to create a complete database and monitor all the activities taken up in the rural …
GUWAHATI, Lapses have been detected during the 2010-2011 survey conducted by the Population Research Centre in Guwahati. The survey report shows low percentage of Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) registration compared to the total number of pregnant women. According to sources in the Population Research Centre, only a mere 44.11 per …
JAIPUR: The state government has identified 20 districts as focus districts to provide quality medical facilities for reducing infant mortality rate in the state. Most of the focus districts are situated in western Rajasthan including Jaisalmer, Barmer and Jodhpur. The other districts are Pali, Sirohi, Udaipur, Dungarpur, Pratapnagar, Banswara, Chittorgarh, …
New Delhi The Planning Commission on Monday approved R 3,200-crore annual Plan for Arunachal Pradesh for the current fiscal year. The state annual Plan was finalised here at a meeting between Commission
Concerned over the high maternal and infant mortality rate in the country, the Centre on Wednesday launched an ambitious programme to provide free services to pregnant women for deliveries and neo-natal care, if needed, up to a month after birth. The facility will be available to all women in government …
The growing health risks associated with greenhouse gas emissions highlight the need for new energy policies that emphasize efficiency and low-carbon energy intensity. The authors assessed the relationships among electricity use, coal consumption, and health outcomes.
In a bid to monitor the immunisation process and ensure its effective implementation, the Union Health Ministry will soon have a system in place to track and verify children who are vaccinated across states. States have been asked to send data of vaccinated children along with mothers
China has slashed AIDS mortality by nearly two-thirds since it began distributing free antiretroviral drugs in 2002, Chinese government scientists are reporting. About 63 percent of all those needing AIDS drugs are getting them, up from virtually zero in 2002. That has caused a 64 percent drop in mortality in
Tamil Nadu Reduced Rate by 46%, West Bengal 37%, Urban Delhi Unchanged Recently released data on infant deaths across states in India has thrown up surprising results, leaving health experts puzzled. Average infant mortality rate for the country as a whole stood at 50 in 2009, down by 30% compared …
The population of the world, long expected to stabilize just above 9 billion in the middle of the century, will instead keep growing and may hit 10.1 billion by the year 2100, the United Nations projected in a report released Tuesday. Children at a community clinic in the village of …
