Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
JAIPUR: Naveen Jain, chief of state's unit of the National Health Mission (NHM), said at a meeting of stakeholders on the problem of malnutrition in Rajasthan that the programme of community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) can play a vital role in making Rajasthan free of malnutrition. "This national policy …
In a bid to provide quality healthcare services and attract investment in the sector in the priority districts, the State Government has formulated a new investment promotion policy. The Odisha Healthcare Investment Promotion Policy-2016 envisages promotion of private sector investment in the healthcare sector through strategic partnerships besides policy interventions.The …
In 2002, the Belgian Act on Euthanasia came into effect, regulating the intentional ending of life by a physician at the patient’s explicit request. We undertook this study to describe trends in officially reported euthanasia cases in Belgium with regard to patients’ sociodemographic and clinical profiles, as well as decision-making …
This handbook is designed as a resource for providing up-to-date and practical guidance on national health planning and strategizing for health. It establishes a set of best practices to support strategic plans for health and represents the wealth of experience accumulated by WHO on national health policies, strategies and plans …
The revised estimates put the incidence of TB in India at 217 per 1,00,000 population in 2015 as against the previously estimated 127 per 1,00,000. WHO said the size of the epidemic has increased considerably because researchers realised that earlier estimates from India were too low. Inaccurate estimates of the …
Taxing sugary drinks can lower consumption and reduce obesity, type 2 diabetes and tooth decay, says a new WHO report. Fiscal policies that lead to at least a 20% increase in the retail price of sugary drinks would result in proportional reductions in consumption of such products, according to the …
In 1988, the World Health Assembly (WHA) passed a historic resolution to eradicate polio by the year 2000, resulting in the creation of the largest public–private partnership for health—the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI). When GPEI was launched, wild polio virus (WPV) was endemic in 125 countries and resulted annually …
Global withdrawal of serotype-2 oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV2) took place in April 2016. This marked a milestone in global polio eradication and was a public health intervention of unprecedented scale, affecting 155 countries. Achieving high levels of serotype-2 population immunity before OPV2 withdrawal was critical to avoid subsequent outbreaks of …
Many individuals at the end of life are unable to convey their wishes regarding medical treatments. Advance directives (ADs) or living wills (LWs) allow them to crystallise their wishes in a written form so that these can be carried out if the relevant situation arises. In many countries, ADs are …
Almost 51 per cent of health insurance policyholders in India are underinsured despite steady rise in policy sold, said a report Apollo Munich Health Insurance. At 52 per cent men are more underinsured, that is they have purchased low sum insured health insurance policies that would not suffice in medical …
Judgement of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Devika Biswas Vs Union of India & Others dated 14/09/2016. This public interest petition raises very important issues concerning the entire range of conduct and management, under the auspices of State Governments, of sterilization procedures wherein women and occasionally …
Health Minister K.K. Shylaja has said that the government was planning to launch a people’s health policy in the State. Addressing the Independence Day parade at the Police Parade ground here on Monday, the Minister said that the health policy in the pipeline was meant to ensure that health care …
The health protection scheme, modelled after Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), has already obtained the Expenditure Finance Committee's approval. PM Narendra Modi’s reiteration in his Independence Day address about the Centre’s commitment to providing a health cover of Rs 1 lakh to the poor may give National Health Protection Scheme …
The World Health Organization declared India – among other 10 countries in South East Region – as ‘polio-free’ in 2014. Since then, the Government of India (GoI) has scaled up its initiatives against polio endgame which targets virus eradication and sequential withdrawal of type 2 virus from oral polio vaccine …
Why India’s health insurance models frustrate and exclude a large part of the population. Three quarters of India’s population has no health insurance. Union Health Minister Jagat Prakash Nadda said in May 2016 that only about 24 per cent of the population has some form of medical insurance. That includes …
Mysuru: Health minister Ramesh Kumar said that the department is in the process of updating the existing health policy to cover all types of diseases. The updated policy will be launched on or before August 15. He was speaking after distributing wheelchairs and limbs to physically challenged people as part …
In a major step towards revamping regulations in medical education and services, the government has proposed the National Medical Commission Bill. The bill proposes setting up of several autonomous boards that will be bestowed with wide powers to maintain high ethical standards in medical education and professional services. The proposed …
Pioneering research has been conducted in India during the past five decades, comprehensively covering epidemiology of poliovirus infection and of polio, efficacy and effectiveness of oral and inactivated polio vaccines (OPV, IPV) as well as pathogenesis of wild and vaccine polioviruses. It was estimated, based on epidemiology data, that India …
The objective of this paper was to determine whether sugar industry-related organizations influenced textual changes between the draft and final versions of the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) 2015 guideline Sugars intake for adults and children. Original Source
