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 proportion of women and children receiving health care in the poorest countries is increasing. Unfortunately, markers of improved health outcomes, such as falling maternal or newborn mortality, have not matched expectations from the gains in the coverage of care. Robust evidence exists for one explanatory factor: the poor–rich gaps …
It may sound surprising. Despite public outcry over infant deaths at government hospitals last year and illegal practice of female foeticide across the state, some of the important health indicators in the state such as death rate, birth rate and infant mortality rate are better than the national average. However, …
New Delhi: India is expected to miss the crucial UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG), including those related to reduction in poverty, hunger and infant mortality, according to a government report. The poverty ratio is likely to be 26.7% by 2015 as against the target of 23.9%, while infant mortality rate …
More than 7,400 infants have died of preventable diseases in only five blocks of Malkangiri in the last five years - a blatant reflection of the failure of Odisha Government to extend proper health care facilities to the people of State’s most backward district. Even as the State Government dishes …
Companies, reporting a standalone net profit during a year, will now have to spend mandatorily on corporate social responsibility (CSR), even if the parent group is registering a loss. In other words, even if a corporate group is reporting a loss, its subsidiaries, clocking a profit, will have to spend …
Chhattisgarh will bear an additional subsidy of Rs. 2,300 crore Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh does not favour proposed cash transfer for food and will not implement the scheme in his State. “Food security means taking food to people’s doorstep,” he told journalists here on Saturday. The Chief Minister said …
Publication of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 (GBD 2010) is a landmark event and we hope, for health. The collaboration of 486 scientists from 302 institutions in 50 countries has produced an important contribution to our understanding of present and future health priorities for countries and the global …
Estimation of the number and rate of deaths by age and sex is a key first stage for calculation of the burden of disease in order to constrain estimates of cause-specific mortality and to measure premature mortality in populations. We aimed to estimate life tables and annual numbers of deaths …
The Uttar Pradesh government signed a memorandum of operation with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on Thursday for bilateral and technical cooperation in health, nutrition, agriculture and other development areas and sectors. The memorandum will remain effective till 2017, an official release said. Few months back, UP chief minister Akhilesh …
Bhubaneswar: In spite of notable progress made by the Odisha government in bringing down the Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) and Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) in the state in the last few years, the state still stands second in IMR among other states of the country with 57 infant and neonatal …
Unique integration of programmes across key departments to improve health, nutrition services. Showing the way in implementing the much-talked about convergence of schemes for better results, the Andhra Pradesh government has initiated a unique integration of programmes across key departments to improve health, nutrition, water and sanitation services offered to …
The sex ratio in the national capital has increased from 821 in 2001 census to 866 in 2011, but it is still below the national ratio, according to data released by the Delhi government which puts the city’s population at 1.67 crore. Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit released the Delhi …
Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Friday said public health system in the country had “collapsed”, noting that even poorer countries like Bangladesh and Kenya have superior health indicators. In a candid assessment of the country’s health sector, Mr Ramesh also said 70 per cent of the health expenditure …
India continues to top the global pneumonia mortality charts, witnessing four lakh deaths of children every year. This translates into 1,095 children dying every day on account of a vaccine-preventable disease, which is also treatable with antibiotics. Worldwide, 13 lakh children died of pneumonia in 2011, with 30 per cent …
Despite significant improvement in infant mortality rates over the years, only six states in India are on course to meet the UN millennium development goal of 26 deaths per 1,000 live births. This is one of the conclusions of the Infant and Child Mortality India Report released by the National …
Only six states in the country, including Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, are likely to achieve the Millenium Development Goal (MDG) on reducing child mortality by 2015, says an official report. Except Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and West Bengal, other states are unlikely to achieve MDG 4, which …
The state government, while claiming that infant mortality rate in the state has improved and malnutrition has declined drastically, announced a special drive for the eradication of the malnutrition in urban areas. The state government released the report of the study conducted by International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), supported …
A modest yet consistent decline in the infant mortality rate, especially in six problematic states, is one of the key features of the latest data from the Sample Registration System. Nationwide, the IMR has dropped by three points from 47 infant deaths per 1,000 live births to 44, according to …
JAIPUR: The infant mortality rate (IMR) in the state has come down from 55 per 1000 live births to 52 per 1000 live births, says the recently released Sample Registration Survey (SRS), 2011, conducted by the Registrar General of India. The IMR in the state has reduced by 3 points …
The Maharashtra Comprehensive Nutrition Survey 2012is the first ever state-specific nutrition survey with a focus on infants and children undertwo and their mothers. A representative sample of children under two years of age was selected from each of the six administrative divisions of Maharashtra namely, Amravati, Aurangabad, Konkan, Nagpur, Nashik …
