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 …
A delayed fight against killer malnutrition A Four-Course Meal * Annual health survey to check nutritional status * Phased financial incentives for pregnant, young mothers * Reward to health worker for better monitoring of mother/child * Pilot scheme for empowering 16-18 age group girls *** Only a couple of years …
While India has witnessed 23 per cent reduction in global hunger index (GHI) between 1990 and 2010, its performance is much below rival China whose score has fallen by a huge 48 per cent during the same period. Worse, according to the new GHI released on Monday, India
BHUBANESWAR: Are some tribal groups in Koraput and Mayurbhanj on the brink? The answer seems to be in affirmative if the rate of child mortality among the tribals is any indication. The child mortality rate of the tribals in 1997-98 was 44 but it has surged to over 62 per …
Sushanta Talukdar Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday launched the Morigaon Model District Health Project, Health Department's ambitious project, in collaboration with The Earth Institute, Columbia University, and the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Morigaon becomes the first district in the country to have started the …
Absence of a viable business model prevents conversion of the huge rural expenditure on health into an economic activity that generates incomes and dethrones India as the world
Epidemiological transition is a process whereby the predominant causes of death shift from communicable/parasitic diseases to non-communicable diseases. A study of the Medical Certification of Cause of Death in Maharashtra shows that the share of communicable diseases has gone down only slightly while diseases of the circulatory system, neoplasm and …
About 0.4 million children below 5-year of age and 20,000 mothers died annually in Pakistan due to malnutrition, socio-economic problems and non-access to the health facilities. This was stated by Secretary Health Punjab Fawad Hassan Fawad while addressing a function held in connection with 'Mother and Child Health Week' being …
Even as the number of deaths among children under the age of five globally has fallen from 12.4 million in 1990 to 8.1 million in 2009, India accounts for 21 per cent of such deaths. According to the latest report titled
The adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals have provided a framework within which to strengthen actions to improve health and well-being for all and ensure no one is left behind. Despite overall improvements in health and well-being in the WHO European Region, inequities …
The country has made progress in reducing infant mortality but it is still some distance from its 2015 target Indicus Analytics / September 9, 2010, 0:39 IST According to the Millennium Development Goals adopted by the United Nations, India has the target of reducing the infant mortality rate (IMR) to …
A highly selective summary of the India Health Report 2010 Shankar Acharya / New Delhi September 9, 2010, 0:24 IST Last week saw the publication by BS Books of the India Health Report 2010 (henceforth referred to as IHR10), edited (and mostly written) by Ajay Mahal, Bibek Debroy and Laveesh …
Children from the poorest communities in India are three times more likely to die before they reach the age of five than those from high income groups, a recent report has revealed. The new global report
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: Children from the poorest communities are three times more likely to die before they reach the age of 5 than those from high income groups, Save the Children, a non-governmental organisation has said. In a global report titled A Fair Chance at Life, the organisation said …
