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 infant and mother death rates continue to shame Haryana with 8,862 newborn deaths registered since July 31. The data is based on the Maternal Infant Death Reporting System (MIDRS) tabled before Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar recently at Chandigarh to chalk out strategies to extend the reach of medical …
The United Na tions has issued a dire warning to India over its abysmally high infant and maternal mortality rate. UNICEF has projected that if current trends of un der-five mortality rate con tinue, by 2030 just five coun tries will account for more than half of all under-five deaths …
The level of hunger in developing countries as a group has fallen by 27 percent since 2000. While the world has made progress in reducing hunger in recent decades, the state of hunger is still serious or alarming in 52 countries. These findings come from the 2015 Global Hunger Index …
The International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) - representing 125 national societies of obstetricians and gynecologists worldwide - released at the XXI World Congress of Gynecology and Obstetrics— its triennial 2015 World Report on Women’s Health entitled, The Unfinished Agenda of Women’s Reproductive Health. The 2015 World Report is …
People in Uganda are living longer due largely to a drop in deaths and illnesses caused by HIV/Aids and malaria, a new analysis of 306 diseases and injuries in 188 countries suggests. The study, published by The Lancet last month, was conducted by an international consortium of researchers led by …
The European health report is a flagship publication, published every three years. The 2012 report set the baseline for monitoring progress towards the six targets of the European policy framework, Health 2020. The 2015 report presents the progress made since the baseline. An assessment of the available data on all …
As per National Health Profile 2015, there will be 19 percent increase in cancer among men by 2020 with mouth cancer registering the highest spike and a 23 percent increase among women with gall bladder cancer showing the sharpest increase. The cancer incidence in men will rise from the current …
There is strong evidence that short-run fluctuations in air pollution negatively impact infant health and contemporaneous adult health, but there is less evidence on the causal link between long-term exposure to air pollution and increased adult mortality. This project estimates the impact of long-term exposure to air pollution on mortality …
HOUSTON: Nearly 5.9 million children will die before their fifth birthday this year mainly of preventable causes, a UN report has warned, though the child mortality rate has fallen by more than 50 percent since 1990. The mortality rate among children under five has fallen from 12.7 million deaths per …
United Nations agencies, UNICEF, WHO as well as the Washington-based World Bank have said Mozambique is part of a group of ten countries in sub-Saharan Africa that have achieved half of the targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for reducing child mortality.In a joint report sent to APA on …
Brazil has seen its child mortality rate fall by 73 percent between 1990 and 2015, according to new statistics published Wednesday by the World Health Organization (WHO). According to the new report, Levels and Trends in Child Mortality 2015, the rate of death of Brazilian children under five years old …
The greatest risk is during the first few days after birth, the report says Child mortality has fallen by more than 50% since 1990, a report by the World Health Organization and UN children's agency Unicef says. It says that 25 years ago 12.7 million children under five died, but …
Child mortality rates have plummeted to less than half of what they were in 1990, according to a new report released. Under-five deaths have dropped from 12.7 million per year in 1990 to 5.9 million in 2015. New estimates in “Levels and Trends in Child Mortality Report 2015,” released by …
This report from A Promise Renewed – a global partnership initiative aimed at ending preventable child and maternal deaths – features updates and analyses of global, regional and national child mortality levels and trends. It also provides current information on causes of child and maternal deaths, and coverage of key …
In 2000, world leaders agreed on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). MDG 4 called for a two-thirds reduction in the under-5 mortality rate between 1990 and 2015. We aimed to estimate levels and trends in under-5 mortality for 195 countries from 1990 to 2015 to assess MDG 4 achievement and …
A 32-year old mother of three children, Margret Edet, whose third child, Eno Abasi Edet is currently on admission at the general hospital, Calabar, the Cross Rivers state capital is faced with the challenges of what life could be to the poor when there is no good health. Mrs. Edet, …
KORAPUT: The infant mortality rate (IMR) has registered a fall in tribal-dominated Koraput district after introduction of the National Rural Health Mission. The District Welfare Department (DSW), entrusted with spreading awareness and providing logistical support to pregnant women in rural areas, has also has its share in it, officials said. …
India ranks lowest among South Asian countries in breastfeeding practices with only 44 per cent women being able to breastfeed their babies within one hour of delivery. According to a report released, ineffective policies, lack of budgets and coordination, and absence of better monitoring are limiting breastfeeding practices in India. …
The rural health care infrastructure in the country is not sufficient to meet the current population norm, according to Rural Health Statistics 2014-15 released by the government. The figures of rural health infrastructure in tribal areas indicate that there is a shortfall of 6,796 sub-centers, 1,267 Primary Health Centres (PHCs) …
PUNE: Crucial health indicators like the infant mortality rate (IMR) and the maternal mortality rate (MMR) will now be analysed and assessed on daily basis. Breaking away from the monthly paper-based evaluation system, the state health department has now adopted SMS-based reporting to improve timeliness in reporting specific, time-sensitive health …
