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. …
Between now and 2030, every country will experience population ageing—a trend that is both pronounced and historically unprecedented. Over the past six decades, countries of the world had experienced only a slight increase in the share of people aged 60 years and older, from 8% to 10%. But in the …
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.
We surveyed 3199 first- and final-year medical and nursing students at 16 premier government institutions in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Malawi, Nepal, the United Republic of Tanzania and Zambia. The survey contained questions to identify factors that could predict students’ intentions to migrate. Primary outcomes were the likelihoods of migrating …
The objective of the study was to evaluate the effects of a government insurance program covering tertiary care for people below the poverty line in Karnataka, India, on out-of-pocket expenditures, hospital use, and mortality.
JAIPUR: Diabetes is affecting many people in rural areas too in increased numbers. As per Annual Health Survey (AHS) 2010-11, there were only 67 persons out of 1 lakh suffering from diabetes in rural Rajasthan but now the number has gone up to 224 people out of 1 lakh, the …
This cross-sectional study aimed to investigate the current prevalence and risk factors associated with intestinal polyparasitism (the concurrent infection with multiple intestinal parasite species) among Orang Asli school children in the Lipis district of Pahang state, Malaysia.
DEHRADUN: To curb malnutrition in Haridwar, the district administration has set up a number of health camps, in which over 3087 children in rural areas have been screened in the last two months. For the health camps, the district administration formed special mobile teams involving officials from five departments to …
Arun Jaitley will be presenting his maiden Budget on July 10. Technically, it will be a budget for eight months only but such occasions have been used earlier in dramatic fashion. A similar Budget presented by none other than Manmohan Singh himself in July 1991 effected a revolutionary shift in …
Recent studies in India indicate rising trends of diabetes even in rural areas. Continuous monitoring of the diabetes situation is required by repeated cross sectional studies in different parts of the country both urban rural to plan control measures. The aim of the study was to estimate the prevalence of …
PATNA: CM Jitan Ram Manjhi has said the state government would take support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for complete eradication of kala-azar. It was decided at the CM's meeting with the foundation representatives on Tuesday night that both the government and the foundation will work together in …
During China’s transition to a market economy in the 1980s and 1990s, the rural population faced substantial barriers to accessing health care and encountered heavier financial burdens than urban residents in paying for necessary health services. In 2003, China started to implement a rural cooperative medical scheme (RCMS), mainly through …
Latest estimates announced on Friday have revealed some worrying findings about the growing burden of cancer in India. The latest figures published in the British medical journal The Lancet show that around one million new cancer cases are being diagnosed in India each year, projected to nearly double to 1.7 …
About 1000 tuberculosis ( TB) patients are dying every day in our country and we are also generating 5000 patients daily,” District nodal officer Dr Vijay Chhajlani said here on Tuesday. Inaugurating the TB Week at M Hospital, Dr Chhajlani said that TB is one of the deadly communicable diseases …
The survey points out that the rural-urban divide is highest in Assam for infant mortality rate Even as infant and maternal mortality rates dropped significantly in nine states, which account for half the country’s population, the disparity between these rates in urban and rural areas as well as between different …
ALLAHABAD: With an aim to set up a quality assurance system in state health facilities, NRHM authorities will organize a two-day workshop on January 27 and 28 in Lucknow for district women hospitals and 121 rural health units. District programme officer, National Rural Health Mission (DPM-NRHM) VK Singh told TOI, …
Friday, January 03, 2014 - Islamabad—Islamabad Capital Territory Administration on Thursday launched mobile health services for the remote rural areas of Islamabad. The health service has been launched with the co- operation of National Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Network, the NGOs, Helping Hand for Relief and Development and Network …
Social activist Jacqueline Lundquist tells Madhur Tankha that “in the U.S., people get drinking water even in their bathrooms” Jacqueline Lundquist, a social activist and the wife of the former United States Ambassador to India Richard Celeste, is now on an ambitious mission to provide unadulterated water to people living …
Project director of Jharkhand Rural Health Mission (JRHM), Dr Manish Ranjan has issued notice to all district civil surgeons in the state asking them to launch awareness campaigns underlining the possible causes of malnutrition and its preventive measures. Through the campaign, people would be urged to take their emaciated children …
