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 …
Mandi Ahmedgarh: Prem Kumar Aggarwal, district governor, Rotary International (District 3090), has called upon all NGOs to launch a coordinated move to save infants and children who were dying due to inadequate health facilities, water-borne diseases, starvation and illiteracy. He also highlighted the need for the water management and environment …
The ICDS scheme is weighed down by several flaws, the worst of them being the attempt to target it for children of the poorest among the poor. At an anganwadi centre at Samar Gopalpur Kalan village in Haryana
The global economic crisis has slowed the pace of poverty reduction in developing countries, and is hampering progress toward the other Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), says the Global Monitoring Report 2010: The MDGs after the Crisis. The crisis is having an impact in several key areas of the MDGs, including …
Health sector reforms associated with decentralization, contraction of public sector, service contracting, user fees, etc., influence health sector both from the demand side and the supply side. In the wake of decreasing public expenditure on health, it is necessary to find the other factors that could take care of the …
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that year 2010-11 would be a family planning year in the State. He said that stabilisation in terms of population is necessary for development and the issue of population control would be included in the Madhya Pradesh Banao drive. He was awarding 22 …
DAVID BLOOM PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS AND DEMOGRAPHY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY My focus is on India's population which has, in the past, been an albatross weighing down the Indian economy. India's demographic profile is now in flux and it is changing in a way that is quite favourable to economic growth. The …
N. Ram In a thrust to provide sustained support to life-saving innovations in India and around the world, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is placing new emphasis on innovations that effect social and cultural change to bring down the unacceptably high death rates for children under five years of …
Previous estimates of the global burden of disease for children have not included much information from China, leading to a large gap in data. The authors identified the main causes of deaths in neonates (<1 month), postneonatal infants (1
NEW DELHI: Chairing the meeting of the full Planning Commission for mid-term appraisal of the Eleventh Plan, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pointed out that the exercise not only presents a report card of the government's achievements but also
The Economic Survey Report 2009-10 of the state in the field of health is replete with discrepancies with different figures regarding the same issue written on separate pages and even on the same page. The survey report, released by Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather along with the Budget a few …
BHUBANESWAR: Even as Orissa continues to struggle with high infant and maternal mortality rates, the latest evaluation report of the National Rural Health Mission has revealed the failures of the State health apparatus. Beset with a high MMR of 303, the State has to ensure earnest implementation of Janani Suraksha …
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) Managing Director General Rajat M Nag on Thursday said that the way India's growing, it is quite possible that by year 2020 it will become world's third largest economy. "In 2008, India ranked world's 12th largest economy at $1.2 trillion. As it grows further in …
LALIT SHASTRI The Madhya Pradesh minister for health and family welfare, Anup Mishra admitted in the Assembly that the infant mortality rate was high in the state but at the same time pointed out that it is wrong to draw a conclusion on the basis of a sample survey. No …
In what can be considered good news in the field of child care in Assam, the State Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) has come down to 48 per thousand from the 65 per thousand in the year 2005. State Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, while announcing this at the inaugural function …
NEW DELHI: Delhi Finance and Planning Minister A. K. Walia on Tuesday released the Delhi Statistical Handbook-2009 according to which there has been an increase of Rs.8,452 in per capita income in Delhi. It was Rs.70,238 in 2006-07 and Rs.78,690 in 2007-08 at current prices and much higher than the …
Improved public transport in Delhi has stabilised the growth rate of two- wheelers in the national Capital. The Delhi Statistical Hand Book 2009 released by Finance Minister Dr Ashok Kumar Walia on Tuesday, clearly shows stabilised growth rate of two-wheelers
This report, which would jointly prepared by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, the Asian Development Bank and the UN Development Programme, illustrates the negative impacts of the global economic crisis on progress towards the Millennium Development Goals in the Asia-Pacific region and identifies opportunities …
