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. …
Population impacts many aspects of our lives, including issues as diverse as poverty, health, education, water, and forests. Population matters even more today because historically high numbers of people are intensifying these impacts on our well-being at a time when the demographic picture of the world is becoming increasingly complex. …
A horrifying number of 55,053 female foetuses are being aborted every year in Maharashtra after sex selection tests. This was disclosed by the state coordinator for United Nations Population Fund Agency (UNPFA), Anuja Gulati, at a seminar organised by the PM Shah Foundation and Lek Ladki Abhiyaan in the city …
Chandigarh: Nearly 10 months after the Government of India’s Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojna, the Women and Child Department is finally ready to roll out the conditional maternity benefit scheme to as many as 4,900 beneficiaries. The Centre has already released over Rs 1 crore in two instalments of Rs …
Maternal & child mortality: Few nations to achieve target Even though progress on reducing maternal and child mortality in most countries is accelerating, according to renowned UK medical journal Lancet, most developing countries will take many years past 2015 to achieve the targets of the MDGs 4 and 5. Lancet, …
With 4 years until 2015, it is essential to monitor progress towards Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 4 and 5. Although estimates of maternal and child mortality were published in 2010, an update of estimates is timely in view of additional data sources that have become available and new methods developed. …
n 2008, 36 million people died from non-communicable diseases (NCDs). 1 By 2020, NCDs are projected to cause almost three quarters as many deaths as communicable, maternal, perinatal, and nutritional diseases, and by 2030 to exceed them as the most common causes of death. 2 On Sept 19, 2011, the …
The annual number of children who die before they reach age five is shrinking, falling to 7.6 million global deaths in 2010 from more than 12 million in 1990, UNICEF and the World Health Organisation said on September 14. Overall, 12,000 fewer children under age 5 die each day than …
It is ironic that India, which is aiming to become a hub of medical tourism and boasts of world class medical facilties, cannot provide even basic midwifery services and primary health care to thousands of pregnant women. Not only is the country’s maternal mortality rate high, in some districts like …
The Pune branch of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) would soon launch a project, Sukanya, to save the girl child and spread awareness about having a healthy child, be it male or female. The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has extended its support to this project. The president of IMA, Pune …
Drug major Ranbaxy On Wednesday said it will spend nearly ¥200 million (over Rs 10 crore) along with parent company Daiichi Sankyo over the next five years to sponsor mobile healthcare field clinics in India, Cameroon and Tanzania. The services will be provided in the fields of basic healthcare, immunisation, …
Increased global focus on maternal and child health too often overlooks newborn deaths, which account for 41 per cent of child deaths, according to a new study published in the medical journal PLoS Medicine . India has the greatest number of newborn deaths — more than 9 lakh a year. …
Emphasis on utilisation of “untied funds” for a variety of health care services Elected representatives of Panchayati Raj institutions from 16 districts of Rajasthan attending a workshop here over the weekend said the issues relating to sex selection, gender equality and maternal health were getting priority in panchayat-level health planning …
The United Nations Population Fund will raise $70 million for 2012-16 Eighth Country Programme aimed at supporting lifesaving services and maternal health and tackling violence against women in Bangladesh. ‘We should invest more in maternal health, in the education of young people, especially girls, in voluntary family planning and in …
Morbidity and its treatment can be potentially burdensome or even catastrophic for poor households. While public policy has shown some response to this phenomenon, there is scope for improvement of the coverage of the programmes. Health insurance schemes like the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana cover only conditional hospitalisation expenses. This …
The government is drawing up a five-year health plan with focus on strengthening rural health care and bringing down the death rate of newborns and their mothers. Mamata Banerjee, who holds the health portfolio, went to the health headquarters in Salt Lake today to be briefed by officials about “Plan …
The rates of maternal and infant mortality have improved only marginally, according to the latest Sample Registration System. THE country's largest demographic sample survey, covering 1.4 million households and a population of 7.01 million, during the period 2007-09, says that there was only a mild improvement in the infant mortality …
The rates of maternal and infant mortality have improved only marginally, according to the latest Sample Registration System. THE country's largest demographic sample survey, covering 1.4 million households and a population of 7.01 million, during the period 2007-09, says that there was only a mild improvement in the infant mortality …
New Delhi: Lesser children are now born in houses or outside hospitals in India with institutional deliveries picking up speed in the past two years. Almost 20 lakh more children were born in hospitals in 2010-11 than they were in 2008-09. According to the health ministry’s latest records, India saw …
Data for selected indicators associated with sociodemographic characteristics among ever-married women, contraception use, child vaccination, antenatal care practices and health conditions were extracted from the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys conducted in 1993–94, 1996–1997, 1999–2000, 2004 and 2007. Results for the whole sample and for the poorest and the richest …
Nearly 300 mothers out of total of 100,000 die during childbirth in Pakistan in various complications related to pregnancy, the highest in the world. This was disclosed here Sunday by a renowned gynaecologist, Dr Haroon Latif Khan while addressing a workshop held at Lahore Institute of Fertility and Endocrinology, (LIFE). …
