Infant mortality
World health statistics 2025: Monitoring health for the SDGs, Sustainable Development Goals
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 …The State of the World’s Children 2016: A fair chance for every child
By 2030, 69 million children under the age of five will have died, 167 million children will be living in poverty and 750 million women will have been married as children, unless the issues facing the most disadvantaged children are tackled says this annual UNICEF report. Every child has the …Kerala to incorporate health projects under UN programme
Thiruvananthapuram: The state has decided to incorporate all the projects in the health sector under the United Nations sustainable development programme. Health minister K K Shylaja said that according to the sustainable development programme the third programme is the development of health sector. Since 2015 all the health policies of …Methodology for valuing the health impacts of air pollution: discussion of challenges and proposed solutions
This report is meant to inform a joint publication by the World Bank and Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) on the economic costs of air pollution. Air pollution is a global challenge and one that is acutely felt in developing countries. Illnesses caused by ambient and household air …Geographical inequalities and social and environmental risk factors for under-dive mortality in Ghana in 2000 and 2010: Bayesian spatial analysis of census data
Under-five mortality is declining in Ghana and many other countries. Very few studies have measured under-five mortality—and its social and environmental risk factors—at fine spatial resolutions, which is relevant for policy purposes. Our aim was to estimate under-five mortality and its social and environmental risk factors at the district level …Infant mortality rate drops in Karnal
The efforts of the Health Department have bore fruit as the district has witnessed a downfall in the infant mortality rate (IMR), which has always been a challenge for the department. However, the risks of stillbirth and death of a baby before or during the delivery is still a major …Nutritional status and infant mortality rate: a case study in Saiha district, Mizoram, India
This communication examines nutritional status and its impact on infant mortality rate (IMR) in Saiha district, Mizoram, India. We conducted a case study of 17 villages and 1650 mothers were surveyed, using random sampling method. The district has very high IMR (219.6), significantly higher than Mizoram (35). Meanwhile, per day …State-wide campaign to fight maternal mortality
Jaipur: Aiming to bring down maternal mortality ratio (MMR) in the state, health department launched Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matratva Abhiyan (Prime Minister Safe Motherhood Campaign) in the state from Thursday. Under the campaign, Prime Minister Safe Motherhood Day (PMSMD) will be celebrated at primary health centres, community health centres, district …National Family Health Survey 2015-16 (NFHS-4): District fact sheets
The National Family Health Survey 2015-16 (NFHS-4), the fourth in the NFHS series, provides information on population, health and nutrition for India and each State / Union territory. NFHS-4, for the first time, provides district-level estimates for many important indicators.Improving reporting of infant deaths, maternal deaths and stillbirths in Haryana, India
Underreporting hampers the accurate estimation of the numbers of infant and maternal deaths and stillbirths in India. In Haryana state, a surveillance-based model – the Maternal Infant Death Review System – was launched in 2013 to try to resolve this issue. The system is a mixture of routine passive data …The Global strategy for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health (2016–2030): a roadmap based on evidence and country experience
The Global strategy for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health (2016–2030) provides a roadmap for ending preventable deaths of women, children and adolescents by 2030 and helping them achieve their potential for and rights to health and well-being in all settings. The global strategy has three objectives: survive (end preventable deaths); …Delivering the Millennium Development Goals to reduce maternal and child mortality: a systematic review of impact evaluation evidence
Improved outcomes for women and children - more education, lower fertility rates, higher nutritional status, and lower incidence of illness, among other outcomes - have broad individual, family, and societal benefits. For nearly 15 years, the targets of the millennium development goals (MDGs) have been a bellwether for progress, particularly …Indigenous and tribal peoples' health (The Lancet–Lowitja Institute Global Collaboration): a population study
International studies of the health of Indigenous and tribal peoples provide important public health insights. Reliable data are required for the development of policy and health services. Previous studies document poorer outcomes for Indigenous peoples compared with benchmark populations, but have been restricted in their coverage of countries or the …Survey indicates rise in cases of anaemia
Touted as one the most developed states of the country, Haryana seems to have performed badly as far as key health indicators for the state shown in the National Family Health Survey -4 (NFHS-4) are concerned. The factsheet for Haryana as provided in the NFHS-4 shows that the state has …Looking back on two decades of poverty and well-being in India
This paper provides an overview of poverty and well-being trends in India since the mid-1990s. Poverty reduction since 2005 has been much faster than the earlier decade, as a result of broad-based growth across most geographic areas. Underlying this is a pattern of high mobility in economic status that has …Trends in socioeconomic disparities in a rapid under-five mortality transition: a longitudinal study in the United Republic of Tanzania
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. Original SourceExperts panel moots steps to tackle congenital heart disease in infants
Prioritising CHD could lead to lower infant mortality rate in the State With around 250,000 children being born with congenital heart diseases (CHD) every year, experts met here to recommend screening and access for medical treatment under the Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK) of the Union Ministry of Health and …“Real-time” monitoring of under-five mortality: Lessons for strengthened vital statistics systems
Civil registration and vital statistics systems are increasingly recognized as drivers of human rights, health, and development programs—especially for women and children. Vital statistics systems are weak in most low-income countries, precisely where the burden of maternal and child deaths is highest and, therefore, the need for up-to-date, high-quality estimates …Hyderabad: Mortality rate of infants still very high despite all existing facilities
Hyderabad: When 1000 babies are born 36.9 of them die on the first day of birth and 60 per 1000 die in the first one week of birth posing a major challenge to health care facilities and paediatricians. The problem is that of the 1000 live births the infant mortality …Every 3rd below-5 kid in Haryana stunted
Child malnutrition continues to be high Child malnutrition continues to be unacceptably high in most major states of India, though some progress on this front has been made in the past 10 years. New trends contained in the first phase findings of National Family Health Survey-4 (2015-16), which the government …Increased childbirth at Indian health facilities led to no matching reduction in maternal deaths
To reduce maternal and neo-natal deaths, India launched a cash transfer programme in 2005 that provides monetary incentives for women to give birth in health facilities instead of at home. While the programme successfully increased the use of health facilities for child birth, it did not reduce maternal deaths as …