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 …
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 …
This Save the Children report highlights the achievements and challenges in ensuring the survival of children under the age of five. Its publication coincides with the launch of the global campaign on newborn and child survival and serves to remind world leaders to honour their commitments to achieve Millennium Development …
If you want to rank states, there are two broad roads to follow. First, you can administer questionnaires and respondents' reply to specific questions. However, this route presumes that respondents know about all the states you wish to rank. Typically, that doesn't happen. Respondents know about states they operate in …
If you want to rank states, there are two broad roads to follow. First, you can administer questionnaires and respondents' reply to specific questions. However, this route presumes that respondents know about all the states you wish to rank. Typically, that doesn't happen. Respondents know about states they operate in …
- Six malnutrition treatment centres have opened doors in the state since July The state has received six more malnutrition treatment centres, in the past two to three months, that aim to curb the mortality rate among infants. Born in Rajasthan around three years ago, the first malnutrition treatment clinic …
In a glaring act of negligence, for almost three years the Punjab government failed to provide mandatory supplements of iron and vitamin A to children born in the state. Vitamin A deficiency can not only cause night blindness, but also increase the risks of acute respiratory disorders as well as …
As the city deals with burgeoning population, the average number of births per day in the Capital is 915 against 295 deaths. Despite the high number, Delhi
Insurgency and geographical isolation from the rest of India are two of the major causes for underdevelopment of the North East region of India despite the fact that the region has abundance of natural resources, said a report of the World Bank. The report of the World Bank said that …
The euphoria over improvement in the imbalanced sex ratio at birth has proved to be short-lived for the hill state. Though the sex ratio at birth is looking up, but what is more disturbing is the fact that the infant mortality rate (IMR) has shown a decline, indicating that if …
