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 …
World Health Statistics 2013 contains WHO’s annual compilation of health-related data for its 194 Member States, and includes a summary of the progress made towards achieving the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and associated targets. This year, it also includes highlight summaries on the topics of reducing the gaps between …
The Planning Commission on Thursday approved a Plan outlay of Rs 3,650 crore for Manipur for 2013-14, an increase of 4.3 per cent from the previous fiscal. In 2012-13, the state government had received a Plan size of Rs 3,500 crore. The plan size was finalised here in a meeting …
High Level Monitoring Committee on Infant Mortality Reduction (IMR) held under the chairmanship of Minister of State for Health, Shabir Ahmad Khan here today. The committee after thread bare discussion and review of the present status of infant mortality rate in the State has approved action plan of Rs 15.36 …
JAIPUR: The neonatal mortality rate (NMR) in Rajasthan has decreased but it is still among the top four states with highest NMR in the country. In Rajasthan, 37 infants out of 1,000 live births die before completing 29 days, says the sample registration system (SRS) statistical report of 2011, prepared …
Thiruvananthapuram: Besides a government failure in disseminating the benefits of numerous social welfare schemes among tribal families at Attappadi, the prevalence of alcoholism among pregnant women has triggered a series of health concerns in the region. A study conducted by the health department has found that many children born here …
An analysis was conducted of the number of countries that guarantee breastfeeding breaks, the daily number of hours guaranteed, and the duration of guarantees. To obtain current, detailed information on national policies, original legislation as well as secondary sources on 182 of the 193 Member States of the United Nations …
The 2013 Global Monitoring Report (GMR) marks the tenth edition of the GMR since the inception of the report in 2004. The GMR continues to provide an annual assessment of progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This assessment allows the World Bank and the IMF together with the larger …
The Integrated Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Pneumonia and Diarrhoea launched by the WHO and UNICEF has the potential to save up to 2 million children every year from deaths caused by these diseses, some of the leading killers of children under five globally.
Montek lauds proposal to set up separate capital development fund Kerala’s annual Plan for 2013-14 has been fixed at Rs.17,000 crore, which is 21 per cent higher than that for the year 2012-13. This was decided at a meeting held by Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and his team with …
Faced with disturbing hunger and malnourished levels, India is expected to miss the crucial UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG), particularly those related to reduction in poverty, hunger and infant mortality by 2015. India’s status on Global Hunger Index for 2013 is far worse than neighbouring countries, including Sri Lanka, Pakistan …
ALLAHABAD: With the objective of checking infant mortality rate (IMR), state health authorities have come up the Khasra Rakshak Abhiyan, a campaign to control spread of measles, as part of the national routine immunisation programme starting from April 22 in the district. All children aged from 9 months to 10 …
Study Says A Trial On Vitamin Supplementation Among Preschoolers Did Not Substantiate Earlier Claim Of 30% Reduction Two so-called magic bullets of the international health community’s armoury — pre-school vitamin A supplementation, assumed to reduce child mortality by a quarter and intestinal deworming, assumed to improve child nutrition, growth, and …
Your Antibiotic is Sick: Bacteria are defying the most powerful medicines of all time. Is India ready for a world without antibiotics? The patient is going into shock. His blood pressure is falling. Antibiotics don't seem to work. "Dr Sumit Ray sprinted to the intensive care unit in response to …
Lucknow: In a bid to check high rates of child mortality, the Centre has decided to rope in private sector and corporate houses. Using corporate social responsibility as a tool to save children, the government is looking forward to commitment from the private sector for use of technology and innovations …
The National Nutrition Survey (NNS) 2011 has reported that 29.7 percent of children in the country are underweight, with some difference between those in the urban area and those in the rural areas. The rural-urban difference analysis in the NNS highlights that 12.8 percent of children were severely underweight in …
Exposure to air pollution during pregnancy raises the odds of having low-birth-weight babies, a large international study has found. Researchers combined data on more than 3 million full-term singleton births in 14 health centers in nine countries to establish the impact of air polluted with particulate matter less than 10 …
Exposure Of Moms-To-Be To Car Fumes Tied To Low Birth Weight, Postnatal Mortality London: Scientists may have found the major reason why 1 in every 4 babies born in India (of the 2.6crore births in India annually) are of low weight (below 2.5kg). A worldwide study announced on Wednesday has …
PMC Analysed 35 Child Deaths, Below One Year, Between May 2012 And January 2013 Pune: Low birth weight, a common cause of infant death in rural areas, is also the leading factor linked with infants’ death in Pune, states the latest child death audit report of the Pune Municipal Corporation …
The disease burden saw 14 per cent increase to 31,536 cases per district during October from September’s 27,587 cases. Ninety two districts reported 2,901,262 disease incidence in the observed month compared with previous month’s 2,400,052 in 87 districts, says a Free and Fair Election (Fafen) report. The Fafen who visited …
More than 420,000 children under the age of five years die every year in the country due to both external and internal factors. The major causes of death among under-five children are birth Asphyxia (22 percent), Sepsis (14 percent), Pneumonia (13 percent), Diarrhoea (11 percent) and Premature birth (9 per …
