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. …
The Nepal Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) was carried out in 2014 by Central Bureau of Statistics, Government of Nepal, as part of the global MICS programme. Technical support was provided by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). UNICEF and the Government of Nepal provided financial support. The global MICS …
Even as India is struggling hard to meet the 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) including maternal and infant mortality rate, the Finance Ministry's bid to cut more than `6,000 crore in the Health Ministry's budget of around `31,000 crore is likely to have an adverse impact on its efforts to …
The 2014 edition of the Statistical Yearbook is a reference full of up-to-date and comparable statistics and facts about the 58 regional members and associate members of ESCAP. It includes brief analyses of 32 key features of development in areas as diverse as population and demographics, child and maternal health, …
Measuring a country's health performance has focused mostly on estimating levels of mortality. An alternative is to measure rates of decline in mortality, which are more sensitive to changes in health policy than are mortality levels. Historical rates of decline in mortality can also help test the feasibility of future …
Mancozeb and its main metabolite ethylene thiourea (ETU) may alter thyroid function; thyroid hormones are essential for fetal brain development. In Costa Rica, mancozeb is aerially sprayed at large-scale banana plantations on a weekly basis. The objective of the study was to evaluate urinary ETU concentrations in pregnant women living …
Over the past century, socioenvironmental evolution (eg, reduced pathogenic load, decreased physical activity, and improved nutrition) led to cumulative increments in maternal energy resources (ie, body mass and adiposity) and decrements in energy expenditure and metabolic control. These decrements reduced the competition between maternal and fetal energy demands and increased …
As part of its international development commitment, the Canadian government on Tuesday launched a $45 million project for enhancing the ability of frontline health workers to improve health in Nigeria. The Canadian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Perry Calderwood, said the project showcased Canada's effort to improve maternal, newborn and child …
It's raining model villages in UP. After PM Narendra Modi kick-started the Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana and asked MPs to adopt a village each and develop it as a model village by 2016, it's Kannauj MP Dimple Yadav's turn to throw her weight behind a similar decision in Uttar Pradesh. …
Despite the global burden of morbidity and mortality associated with preterm birth, little evidence is available for use of antenatal corticosteroids and tocolytic drugs in preterm births in low-income and middle-income countries. We analysed data from the WHO Multicountry Survey on Maternal and Newborn Health (WHOMCS) to assess coverage for …
The researchers primary objective was to evaluate the effect of peer counselling by mother support groups (MSG's) in improving the infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices in the community. Researchers conducted this repeated-measure before and after study in the Lalitpur district of Uttar Pradesh, India between 2006 and 2011. …
The days immediately after birth are the most risky for human survival, yet neonatal mortality risks are generally not reported by day. Early neonatal deaths are sometimes under-reported or might be misclassified by day of death or as stillbirths. We modelled daily neonatal mortality risk and estimated the proportion of …
The use of System Rice Intensification, an advanced methodology in paddy farming, has enabled farmers in Nepal, to double their output. Using this improved technology, farmers can grow paddy with less water and it has also helped to minimize production costs compared to the traditional way of farming. Read more …
In the past two decades, child and maternal malnutrition has declined almost by half. Child undernutrition still imposes the greatest nutrition-related health burden at global level. 161 million children are stunted due to chronic malnutrition 99 million children are underweight 45% of child deaths are caused by child and maternal …
The QUALMAT (Quality of Maternal and Prenatal Care: Bridging the Know-do Gap) project has introduced an electronic clinical decision support system (CDSS) for pre-natal and maternal care services in rural primary health facilities in Burkina Faso, Ghana, and Tanzania.
State’s maternal mortality rate 230 against national average of 178 Concerned over a persisting high maternal mortality rate (MMR) in Odisha, the National Health Mission (NHM) has decided to expedite administering of iron sucrose injections in pregnant women in order to check anaemia-related maternal deaths in the State. While the …
More than half (53.9 percent) of the elderly population of the country do not have normal weight as they were either underweight or overweight. According to the findings, 15.8 percent of the elderly are underweight, 24.2 percent are overweight while 13.9 percent fall under the category of obese. The latest …
1366 - 1374Bangladesh is one of the only nine Countdown countries that are on track to achieve the primary target of Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5 by 2015. It is also the only low-income or middle-income country with two large, nationally-representative, high-quality household surveys focused on the measurement of maternal …
Timely access to considerate antenatal care could prevent the deaths of hundreds of women and girls in South Africa during and after pregnancy, a report released on Thursday showed. Amnesty International found that the majority of maternal deaths in the country were avoidable, and said the main problems were late …
Being Released After Nearly 10 Yrs After almost a decade, the Gujarat government is ready with the second state human development report which is to be published shortly .The first report was published in 2005 after being held for two years the report was prepared in 2003 but due …
For nearly 20 years, New Englanders drank and bathed in water without knowing it was laced with a neurotoxin. The chemical leached into the water from vinyl coating sprayed inside water pipes in the late 1960s in response to complaints the water smelled and tasted funny. More than half of …
