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 Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the Rs. 22,507-crore National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) that seeks to address healthcare challenges in towns and cities with focus on urban poor. The scheme will now be introduced as a sub-mission under the National Health Mission (NHM). The mission will be implemented in …
Despite the growing evidence from other developing countries, intra-urban inequality in childhood undernutrition is poorly researched in India. Additionally, the factors contributing to the poor/non-poor gap in childhood undernutrition have not been explored. This study aims to quantify the contribution of factors that explain the poor/non-poor gap in underweight, stunting, …
Read text of the draft health policy 2013 released by the Kerala government. Its objective is to position good health as the product of development agenda including water supply, nutrition, sanitation, prevention of ecological degradation, respect for citizens rights and gender sensitivity. Kerala has achieved good health indicators compared to …
Thiruvananthapuram: Besides a government failure in disseminating the benefits of numerous social welfare schemes among tribal families at Attappadi, the prevalence of alcoholism among pregnant women has triggered a series of health concerns in the region. A study conducted by the health department has found that many children born here …
Exposure to air pollution has been demonstrated to increase the risk of preterm birth and low birth weight (LBW). Although evidence has accumulated on characteristics associated with increased risk of air pollution-related health effects, most studies have been conducted in the adult population and evidence on reproductive outcomes is limited. …
An analysis was conducted of the number of countries that guarantee breastfeeding breaks, the daily number of hours guaranteed, and the duration of guarantees. To obtain current, detailed information on national policies, original legislation as well as secondary sources on 182 of the 193 Member States of the United Nations …
The 2013 Global Monitoring Report (GMR) marks the tenth edition of the GMR since the inception of the report in 2004. The GMR continues to provide an annual assessment of progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This assessment allows the World Bank and the IMF together with the larger …
A year-long study by a city hospital has found high iron deficiency in newborns, indicating considerable lack of the essential mineral during the crucial developmental stages of a foetus. Doctors say in-utero deficiency of iron can lead to irreversible damages, including poor brain development. In the study conducted at Sir …
In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) presented a large amount of evidence about global warming and the impact of human activities on global climate change. The Lancet Commission have identified a number of ways in which climate change can influence human health: lack of food and safe …
Budget 2013-2014: speech of P. Chidambaram, Minister of Finance. Read Finance Minister P Chidambaram's budget speech February 28, 2013 Madam Speaker, I rise to present the Budget for the year 2013-14. 2. I recall my last tenure as Finance Minister and acknowledge with gratitude the splendid support that I received …
“Maternal and child health indicate the robustness of our health sector” Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad on Thursday accorded due appreciation to the fact that the country’s under-five mortality rate has declined much faster than the global average, but agreed that the challenge was to …
The government of Japan has decided to extend financial support of $245,833 (Rs 24 million) to two Pakistani NGOs to help improve the quality of maternal health and social welfare services in Faisalabad. The St Raphael’s Hospital and Tanzeemal Lissan will get $123,000 and $122,833, respectively. The agreement for these …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Non-communicable diseases like cancer, diabetes and heart disease killed two out of three people in 2010 — a larger share than in 1990, when they were responsible for every second death in the world. Of the 52.8 million people who died worldwide in 2010, ischaemic heart disease and stroke accounted …
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 …
Five months after chief minister Akhilesh Yadav and Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation met and promised to initiate more development activities in Uttar Pradesh, the government of UP will sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Gates' Foundation on Thursday. Confirming the development, a …
Modern healthcare system has negligible accessibility in the interior, remote and harsh areas of the northwestern Himalayas. People residing in these areas still depend upon traditional healthcare system.
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 …
