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 …
Only 5 Years Left To Meet The Target Of Millennium Development Goals At the beginning of this millennium in year 2000, 189 countries and 23 international health agencies had pledged to reduce child under-5 mortality by two-thirds and maternal mortality by three-fourths by 2015. These were called the Millennium Development …
Having received support from various states, the proposed Bachelor of Rural Health Care is all set to roll out soon. Speaking exclusively to The Indian Express, Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Azad said he will soon have a meeting with the officials concerned and launch the course.
Up-to-date information on the causes of child deaths is crucial to guide global efforts to improve child survival. The authors report new estimates for 2008 of the major causes of death in children younger than 5 years.
Pune A workshop on Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illness (IMNCI) was recently held at the regional centre of the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Aundh. Conducted jointly with the UNICEF, the workshop had several modules that trained the participants on how to reduce infant mortality. Manuals with hands-on …
Ahmedabad: A seven-day-old boy, who is yet to be named, is hooked to the ventilator, fighting for life. He has suffered serious damage to his kidneys and is on dialysis. The infant has not suffered any infection or congenital damage, he is a victim of the recent heat wave that …
Shoumojit Banerjee PATNA: In a move to bolster Bihar's public health standards, the State government on Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, who visited Bihar on Wednesday, signed the agreement in the presence of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar …
Last week, the central government celebrated five successful years of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and its outreach programmes. But an international report from the voluntary group Save the Children, to be released on May 3, comes as a dampener. The figures show India topping the global list for …
Mandi Ahmedgarh: Prem Kumar Aggarwal, district governor, Rotary International (District 3090), has called upon all NGOs to launch a coordinated move to save infants and children who were dying due to inadequate health facilities, water-borne diseases, starvation and illiteracy. He also highlighted the need for the water management and environment …
The ICDS scheme is weighed down by several flaws, the worst of them being the attempt to target it for children of the poorest among the poor. At an anganwadi centre at Samar Gopalpur Kalan village in Haryana
The global economic crisis has slowed the pace of poverty reduction in developing countries, and is hampering progress toward the other Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), says the Global Monitoring Report 2010: The MDGs after the Crisis. The crisis is having an impact in several key areas of the MDGs, including …
Health sector reforms associated with decentralization, contraction of public sector, service contracting, user fees, etc., influence health sector both from the demand side and the supply side. In the wake of decreasing public expenditure on health, it is necessary to find the other factors that could take care of the …
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that year 2010-11 would be a family planning year in the State. He said that stabilisation in terms of population is necessary for development and the issue of population control would be included in the Madhya Pradesh Banao drive. He was awarding 22 …
DAVID BLOOM PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS AND DEMOGRAPHY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY My focus is on India's population which has, in the past, been an albatross weighing down the Indian economy. India's demographic profile is now in flux and it is changing in a way that is quite favourable to economic growth. The …
N. Ram In a thrust to provide sustained support to life-saving innovations in India and around the world, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is placing new emphasis on innovations that effect social and cultural change to bring down the unacceptably high death rates for children under five years of …
Previous estimates of the global burden of disease for children have not included much information from China, leading to a large gap in data. The authors identified the main causes of deaths in neonates (<1 month), postneonatal infants (1
