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 first scientific study on decadal rate of selective abortions of girls in India has thrown up shocking evidence of a staggering rise in the number of missing girls right from 1980s, and of how the wealthiest and the most educated have conspired to eliminate the girl child. Titled,
World Health Statistics 2011 contains WHO’s annual compilation of health-related data for its 193 Member States, and includes a summary of the progress made towards achieving the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and associated targets.
Thanks to a voucher scheme, more women are taking advantage of professional healthcare services in five trial-programme areas in Kenya. The idea is to boost the capacities of existing healthcare facilities by ensuring that poor patients have the purchasing power to buy the services they need. Experience of five years …
What are the world's best and worst places to be a mother? The 12th annual Mothers' Index analyzes health, education and economic conditions for women and children in 164 countries. Norway ranks 1 this year and Afghanistan ranks last. The United States comes in at 31 among the 43 developed …
Thalidomide was a widely used drug in the late 1950s and early 1960s for the treatment of nausea in pregnant women. It became apparent in the 1960s that thalidomide treatment resulted in severe birth defects in thousands of children. Though the use of thalidomide was banned in most countries at …
The death of 16 women admitted to a government hospital in Jodhpur for childbirth exposes the sorry state of the public health system in Rajasthan. THE death of 16 women, who had sought obstetric care, within a span of a fortnight following infection caused by contaminated intravenous (IV) fluid injection …
India has the world’s second largest urban population (after China). This paper shows the large disparities within this urban population in healthrelated indicators. It shows the disparities for child and maternal health, provision for health care and housing conditions between the poorest quartile and the rest of the urban population …
The cost of maternity care can be a barrier to access that may increase maternal and neonatal mortality risk. We analyzed spending on maternity care in urban slum communities in Mumbai to better understand the equity of spending and the impact of spending on household poverty. http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2458-11-150.pdf
-67 per cent adolescent girls in Jharkhand suffer against a national average of 56 per cent A former anaemia patient who recovered after the intake of iron folic acid (IFA) tablets, fruits and vegetables, she is now going door to door, counselling people on how to combat anaemia, as a …
Women are a social group vulnerable to food insecurity despite being primary actors in the food chain. The problem of food insecurity among women is especially rampant in parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia. Vulnerability to food insecurity has a definite effect on the health of women and children, …
ANTIOXIDANTS are a part of health food products like Kellogg’s cornflakes, Protinex and Horlicks. But claims of these being healthy and nutritious are likely to fall flat as antioxidants have been found to have adverse health reactions. A research has shown that antioxidants like vitamins C and E could be …
UMAID Two foetuses die, 10 survive; first probe finds `tainted' IV fluid, doctors say need to probe more IT took 10 days and the death of 12 fullterm pregnant women in Jodhpur in Rajasthan before state health authorities woke up to suspect that all might have died after being administered …
NEW DELHI: Domestic women workers in the Capital have to do with inaccessible, unaffordable and poor quality maternal health care, according to a paper on
The government has a plan to reach welfare to the poor without wasting money. It wants to put hard cash in their hands instead of spending on welfare programmes. Down To Earth finds out how cash transfer works and how ready is India for the shift in the delivery of …
Only 31 per cent of pregnant women in tribal taluka of Kaprada in Valsad district made use of institutional delivery system, which was lowest in Gujarat, a recent districtlevel health survey has revealed. Eighty-five per cent of the population in the 100 per cent tribal dominated taluka live below the …
It is logical for India to be one of the few countries to spend about two per cent of its gross domestic product on the social sector. After all it hosts the world’s largest number of poor. But it sounds illogical that nearly three-fourths of it is the cost of …
The maternal mortality ratio (MMR) has gone down to 194 per one lakh live births in the country in the last decade, a government survey shows. The 40 percent drop in MMR has taken Bangladesh another step forward in achieving the United Nations' Millennium Development Goal (MDG)-5. To achieve the …
Taking serious note of the spurt in cases of lifestyle diseases like diabetes and hypertension, the BMC has proposed an allocation of Rs2 crore to combat the problem. This is a first of its kind effort from the civic body. In its budget, which was presented on Friday, the BMC …
