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 advent of the Sustainable Development Goal era, in the context of new threats and instabilities to peoples worldwide, offers an ambitious agenda for revitalizing political commitments to human well-being—for future generations as well as our own. The High-level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth provides a special opportunity …
KORAPUT: To improve healthcare facilities in remote and inaccessible areas, the Koraput district administration has decided to organise health camps twice a week in at least 17 panchayats of 14 blocks mostly in remote areas where people are deprived of proper medical attention. "As it is not possible to open …
Aiming to provide healthcare to the most remote areas in the country by reducing "uncertainty" in electricity supply through solar solutions, a policy research institute has signed a pact with Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). Under the pact - 'Initiative on Solar for Healthcare' signed between ICMR and Council …
Aurangabad: The civic body is all set improve its medical health services in the city as it has received a financial assistance of Rs 1.9 crore from the central government to renovate eight health centres. Besides, the municipal body has also filled 58 posts in its health department. The funds …
Although India had some successes in controlling malaria from the time of independence, it still faces a substantial socio-economic burden from this disease. This paper presents a case study of a highly endemic primary health centre with an annual parasite incidence of 30.9 in the tribal regions of Andhra Pradesh. …
Though the Gujarat government claims to be giving incentives to doctors working in remote areas, the state is facing a shortage of specialists like gynecologists and paediatricians, to the extent that even BIMARU states -Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh -are better off with regard to healthcare facilities and …
The three-tier strategy adopted by the government focuses on setting up 1,000 mohalla clinics and 150 polyclinics across the capital in the next one year — a move aimed at bringing primary healthcare to the “doorstep of citizens”. Reiterating its focus on healthcare and ensuring that medical facilities are easily …
Successive Governments of India have promised to transform India's unsatisfactory health-care system, culminating in the present government's promise to expand health assurance for all. Despite substantial improvements in some health indicators in the past decade, India contributes disproportionately to the global burden of disease, with health indicators that compare unfavourably …
PIL filed by Jan Swasthaya Abhiyan in 2015 regarding handing over of 300 primary health centres to private parties for running them according to "Run a PHC Scheme" dated 14/09/2015. This petition impugns the Rajasthan Government's cabinet decision no. 124 of 2015 by which it was decided to handover 90 …
The rural health care infrastructure in the country is not sufficient to meet the current population norm, according to Rural Health Statistics 2014-15 released by the government. The figures of rural health infrastructure in tribal areas indicate that there is a shortfall of 6,796 sub-centers, 1,267 Primary Health Centres (PHCs) …
A Family Health Team (FHT) is a multi-disciplinary primary healthcare model that may be an ideal setting to engage patients in physical activity. An environmental scan was conducted to determine the prevalence and characteristics of physical activity services offered by FHTs in Ontario. Of the 186 FHTs, 102 (55%) completed …
This study aimed to use primary care electronic health records to evaluate the prevalence of overweight and obesity in 2–15-year-old children in England and compare trends over the last two decades.
From a biomedical perspective, non-communicable disease (NCD) is not a new problem, particularly in the global North. However, awareness of the increasing burden from these conditions in low- and middle-income countries (L&MICs;) has only recently emerged in the arena of development policy and practice. In September 2011, the United Nations …
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.
Not since the Alma-Ata definition of primary care in 1978 has there been so much soul searching on how best to provide a first-contact system that is fair, equitable, accessible, cost effective, sustainable, and above all improves the health and wellbeing of the population it serves. Part of this renewed …
India may have little to feel proud about in the findings of UNDP’s Human Development Report for 2014, but the good news is that with ongoing rural employment and school education programmes and some serious discussions on universal healthcare over the last couple of years, it is moving in the …
Approved by the Union Cabinet in 2013 Rs 662.23 crore was released to 29 states/UTs on the basis of appraisal of the programme implementation plan of the states/UTs Announced during the UPA regime, the National Urban Health Mission NUHM) a health scheme for urban poor is all set to fully …
Harsh Vardhan, India’s new health minister, has pledged to bring transparency in health-care services and provide health insurance to all citizens. Vardhan, an ear, nose, and throat surgeon by qualifi cation, is touted by many health experts as the pioneer of India’s Pulse Polio programme. Vardhan, an ear, nose, and …
