Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Mice exposed to high levels of arsenic in utero are more susceptible to tumors such as hepatic and pulmonary carcinoma when they reach adulthood. However, effects of in utero arsenic exposure on general physiological functions such as reproduction and metabolism remain unclear. The researchers evaluated the effect of in utero …
In malarious areas, pregnant women are more likely to have detectable malaria than are their non-pregnant peers, and the excess risk of infection varies with gravidity. Pregnant women attending antenatal clinic for their first visit are a potential pragmatic sentinel group to track the intensity of malaria transmission; however, the …
Anaemia is the most common nutritional deficiency worldwide. The prevalence of anaemia in non-pregnant and pregnant African women (47.5% versus 57.1%) and Southeast Asian women (45.7% versus 48.2%) suggests that majority of reproductive age women at risk for anaemia reside in these countries. Anaemia in pregnant women from developing countries …
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 …
How to finance progress towards universal health coverage in low-income and middle-income countries is a subject of intense debate. We investigated how alternative tax systems aff ect the breadth, depth, and height of health system coverage. The researchers used cross-national longitudinal fi xed effects models to assess the relationships between …
Africa: Achieving Zero Hunger - Combining Social Protection With Pro-Poor Investments A key financing platform for the United Nations Secretary-General's Global Strategy for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health and the Sustainable Development Goals, the Global Financing Facility (GFF) launched here in Addis Abeba on Monday at the Third International Financing …
The etiologies of the male urogenital anomalies hypospadias and cryptorchidism remain unclear. It has been suggested that maternal diet and environmental contaminants may affect the risk of these anomalies via placental or hormonal disturbances. The objective of the study was to examine associations between organic food consumption during pregnancy and …
Though India has halved its incidence of extreme poverty, it is categorised as making ‘slow’ progress on the other 10 parameters including maternal mortality, access to sanitation etc., according to the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Report 2015 released on Tuesday “India hasn’t done that badly on the poverty goals. …
Pregnancy is usually a happy time for women and their families. But, for some women, pregnancy ends unhappily. Some women lose their baby during early pregnancy (spontaneous abortion or miscarriage) or during late pregnancy (stillbirth). Others have their baby earlier than expected (preterm birth) or have a baby with low …
Doctors blame lack of human resource in rural areas, anaemia and late referrals Mother and Child. Karnataka continues to report the highest number of deaths of expectant mothers in South India, though it boasts of achieving the millenium development goals for Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) and Infant Mortality Rate (IMR). …
Japan is considering emphasizing measures to help spread basic health and medical care in developing countries as one of its foreign policy priorities when it hosts the Group of Seven summit next year, a draft document showed Sunday. The draft of the government’s 2016-2020 strategy in the health and medical …
Southern Asia faces the greatest hunger burden, with about 281 million undernourished people and more than half of population in South Asia lack access to improved sanitation says this final MDG report launched today by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have produced the most successful …
The Nigeria Mission Director, United States Agency for International Development(USAID), Mr. Michael Harvey, Thursday said USAID had spent $ 89 million on the Targeted States High Impact Project (T-SHIP) in Sokoto and Bauchi states in six years. This is just as Sokoto State Governor, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal, said his administration …
This eleventh edition of Progress for Children is UNICEF’s final report on the child-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It presents latest data that show while the MDGs helped drive tremendous advances in the lives of the world’s children, development efforts in the past 15 years failed to reach millions of …
Gaping Holes In Healthcare: Niti Aayog India's progress in health outcomes during the past two decades has been slower in comparison to other developing countries with comparable incomes, a latest working paper prepared by Niti Aayog said, highlighting crucial gaps in India's healthcare system. The paper, titled `Health Systems in …
India's progress in health outcomes during the past two decades has been slower in comparison to other developing countries with comparable incomes, a latest working paper prepared by Niti Aayog said, highlighting crucial gaps in India's healthcare system. The paper, titled `Health Systems in India: Bridging the Gap Between Current …
A link between air temperature and birth weight has been discovered by researchers. They have found that exposure to high temperatures during pregnancy increases the risk of giving birth to smaller babies. The study could be seen to have worrying implications for pregnant women in heatwaves and hints that dramatic …
The report looks at the state of inequality in health, answering key questions: according to the latest available data, what is the status of inequality across and within countries? How have levels of health changed in population subgroups over time? The report found that overall, inequalities were to the detriment …
Girls' and women's health is in transition and, although some aspects of it have improved substantially in the past few decades, there are still important unmet needs. Population ageing and transformations in the social determinants of health have increased the coexistence of disease burdens related to reproductive health, nutrition, and …
Girls' and women's health is in transition and, although some aspects of it have improved substantially in the past few decades, there are still important unmet needs. Population ageing and transformations in the social determinants of health have increased the coexistence of disease burdens related to reproductive health, nutrition, and …
