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. …
KOLKATA, 3 FEB: The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) has decided to bear the travel cost of pregnant women of the Sunderbans after it was found that most of these women shied away from attending hospitals for their delivery as they are located in far-flung areas. Senior state health officials …
Union minister for health and family welfare, Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad, on Wednesday, rued the rate of decline in various key health indicators like maternal mortality ratio, infant mortality rate, total fertility rate and death and morbidity due to communicable diseases. He, however, complimented the successive governments of the southern …
India, with a population of more than 1 billion people, has many challenges in improving the health and nutrition of its citizens. Steady declines have been noted in fertility, maternal, infant and child mortalities, and the prevalence of severe manifestations of nutritional deficiencies, but the pace has been slow and …
Encouraging results have been yielded by Janani Express, Janani Sahyogi and Janani Suraksha schemes implemented by the state government with a view to bringing down mother mortality rate (MMR) in Madhya Pradesh. More than 18 lakh women have been benefited by these schemes this year following which MMR has come …
The objective of this study is to provide a model-based method of estimating maternal mortality at the subnational level and illustrate its use in estimating maternal mortality rates (MMrates) and maternal mortality ratios (MMRs) in all 64 districts of Bangladesh.
An Act to regulate the employment of women in certain establishment for certain period before and after child-birth and to provide for maternity benefit and certain other benefits.
Rajahmundry, Dec. 6: The newly formed community health and nutrition centres will play a vital role to bring down infant and maternal mortality rates and also total fertility rate as per the norms set by the National Rural Health Mission in East Godavari district. The district records an infant mortality …
The "State of breastfeeding in 33 countries” is a report of the assessment done in thecountries, as part of the World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative (WBTi) of their infant and young child feeding policies and programmes aimed at enabling women to successfully breastfeed their babies as well as manage to provide …
Underscoring the need for all departments to come together while addressing the problem of malnutrition, prime minister Manmohan Singh has said that existing programmes should be restructured if they are not helping in removing the scourge. Manmohan Singh
The global report Hidden cities: unmasking and overcoming health inequities in urban settings is one important component of the overall WHO and UN-HABITAT strategy to strengthen the response of the local, national and global health communities to reduce health inequities in an increasingly urbanized world. The report exposes the extent …
NEW DELHI: To improve maternal and child health, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Wednesday approved the Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana (IGMSY)
Defying the directive issued by Cabinet Secretary K.M. Chandrasekhar suggesting ministries to avoid using names of top national leaders while announcing welfare programmes, the government on Wednesday approved a new scheme named after former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi for expectant and lactating mothers. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) …
Sushanta Talukdar Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday launched the Morigaon Model District Health Project, Health Department's ambitious project, in collaboration with The Earth Institute, Columbia University, and the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Morigaon becomes the first district in the country to have started the …
UNITED NATIONS: European leaders have offered $1.3 billion at the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) summit here, amid mounting calls for money to pay for the battle to cut extreme poverty. The huge sum was offered late on Monday by EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso at the end of the …
Andrew Mitchell This week leaders from around the globe are meeting in New York for the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Summit. The actions they take over these three days could hold the key to creating a stable, successful future for millions of the world's poorest people. The MDGs were …
