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 …
Shireen Vakil Miller The anomaly between impressive economic growth and appalling rates of malnourishment is not peculiar to Bihar. The country as a whole records malnourishment rates that do not reflect the economic growth. A scene in Madhya Pradesh. Bihar has been in the news recently for recording an average …
AKSHAYA KUMAR SAHOO Tribals living in a resettlement colony in Orissa's Kalinga Nagar have recorded zero infant mortality rate in the last five years. Constant focus on proper antenatal, natal; post natal care, new born care and immunization have contributed to this major achievement. The tribals have benefited mainly from …
IN THE old days, the job of eradicating disease fell to governments and inter-governmental bodies. Then charities, often led by celebrities or entrepreneurs, joined in. Finally, in the Western world at least, governments accepted the need to pool their efforts with those of private donors, big and small. The effort …
Almost 20 years after India signed the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), experts are now looking at the glass as half full, on indicators related to child survival and development. While there are some reasons to cheer
Despite an improvement in child mortality figures, 5,000 children under the age of five die in India everyday due to preventable causes, according to the latest Unicef report
There has been no reduction in neonatal mortality rate figures in the country since 2003. From the 2002 figures, when 37.1 babies in a thousand died within the first 28 days of their life, the figure has remained static at 36 from 2003 to 2007. These are also the last …
Public-private partnership to make healthcare is an initiative to reach out to the unreached, accessible, accountable and affordable for vulnerable sections of society Private Public Partnership (PPP) is not a very recent concept but of late it has gained momentum throughout the world. Initially, it was limited to the finance …
On 12th April 2005, the then PM launched NRHM to provide accessible, affordable and quality care to the rural population, especially the vulnerable sections. It also seeks to reduce the Maternal Mortality Rate MMR from 407 to 100 per 1 lakh live births, Infant Mortality Rate IMR from 60 to …
Hyderabad, Nov. 1: Pneumonia kills more children than AIDS, measles and malaria. In the twin cities, the mortality rate is anywhere between 50 to 70 percent for children below five years, particularly those in the age bracket of one and two years. November 2 will mark the first World Pneumonia …
KATHMANDU, NOV 02 - Every year, 11,000 children under five years of age die of pneumonia, despite the state's claim that its efforts to contain child mortality are paying off. According to the Ministry of Health (MoH), over 58,000 children aged below five years die of various diseases, including pneumonia. …
The infant mortality rate (IMR) in India has gone down. According to the latest figures by the Registrar General of India under the Ministry of Home Affairs, while the IMR in 2006 was 57 per 1,000 live births, India reported an IMR of 53 per 1,000 live births in 2008. …
AREPORT by a UNICEF team providing new estimates of child mortality stressed the need to refocus on pneumonia and diarrhoea as two of the three most important causes of underfive mortality but failed to recognise promotion of exclusive breastfeeding or nutrition as part of the solutions, says an expert. Instead …
C Shivakumar | ENS About 75 per cent of the world's under-five deaths in 2008 took place in only 18 countries. Of this, half of the deaths occurred in only five countries - India, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Pakistan and China SOUTH Asia accounted for 32 per cent …
District Human Development Reports also shows slight improvement in life expectancy THE State Planning Commission on Wednesday released the District Human Development Reports (DHDRs), which show a marginal improvement in life expectancy and infant mortality rates. The study was conducted in five districts: Thiruvannamalai, Sivaganga, Cuddalore, Nagapattinam and Dindigul. Prof …
NEW DELHI: With four lakh newborns dying annually within the first 24 hours in India and the nation being home to one in every three malnourished children in the world, it will not be able to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to reduce the under-five mortality rate by two-thirds …
Poor sanitation is responsible for the spread of a number of communicable diseases, resulting in lost productivity, reduced quality of life, and improvishment. Sanitation is one of the most cost-effective ways to improve public health. Using nationally representative data sets, the report presents analyses of progress, differentials, correlates, and challenges …
