WHO published its World health statistics report 2025, revealing the deeper health impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on loss of lives, longevity and overall health and well-being. In just two years, between 2019 and 2021, global life expectancy fell by 1.8 years—the largest drop in recent history— reversing a …
Union environment minister Prakash Javadekar said on Thursday air pollution is killing 80 people every day in the capital. In a written reply in Rajya Sabha, Javadekar said respirable particulate matter or PM 2.5 is one of the factors responsible for morbidity and premature deaths. "An recent international study has …
China saw levels of two common air pollutants improve modestly in the first half of 2015, environmental group Greenpeace East Asia said on Wednesday. Average levels of PM2.5 - particulate matter with a diameter of 2.5 micrometers that can penetrate deep into the lungs - fell 16 percent in the …
No increase in incidence of contagious diseases due to unprecedented changes in environment and climate has been documented by the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Delhi. There is increasing concern, globally as well as in India, over the effects of climate change on human Health. As per World Health …
Air pollution levels in China's cities improved in the first six months of this year, environmental campaign group Greenpeace said Wednesday, but remained far worse than global and domestic standards. Average levels of PM2.5 -- airborne particulates small enough to deeply penetrate the lungs -- declined 16 percent in 189 …
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Tuesday said the state government has started the process to set up a "State Nutrition Commission" and formulate a "State Nutrition Policy" to address malnutrition among children. The chief minister was speaking at an event organised for the 'Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao" programme …
Ghana has slipped further on its sanitation performance globally to become the World’s 7th worst performing country, according to a new report released on Tuesday. The Joint Monitoring Programme report, “Progress on Sanitation and Drinking Water: 2015 Update and MDG Assessment,” a collaborative effort between the World Health Organisation (WHO) …
Some months ago Prime Minister, Narendra Modi launched the air quality index at a two-day conference that included the environment and forest ministers from all Indian states. Officials at the conference are considering measures to strengthen environmental laws. Over the next two years, the index will be expanded to about …
LUCKNOW: Gomti, which is considered to be the lifeline of Lucknow and for its citizens, is now in grip of Arsenic contamination. And if the findings of a research article are to be believed, then the level of Arsenic toxicity in this river (in Lucknow) exceeds twice the permissible limit …
About 1.8 million Malawians are still practicing open defecation, the global health organization recent report has revealed. The report cites that the same population consists of people who do not have good toilets hence they are not hygienic. It further reveals that a good percentage of Malawians do not wash …
UNAIDS Determined to end Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) by 2030 and make more people living with the virus know their status, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Joint United Nation Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) have released new consolidated guidelines on HIV testing services even as …
In a bid to ensure that tuberculosis cases in the country do not escape detection, a Geographic Information System (GIS)-based mapping and tagging of TB patients, which will provide a real time and a dynamic way to represent disease information on maps, is on the anvil. The move gains significance, …
Air-pollution levels in downtown Yangon exceed international standards, city authorities have revealed. Monitoring equipment has recorded 102 parts per million (ppm) of airborne particles, 2ppm above the World Health Organisation’s guideline of 100ppm. Trucks and trains emit exhaust fumes along Strand Road in downtown Yangon. (Naing Wynn Htoon/The Myanmar Times)Trucks …
The French Senate has called for new efforts to tackle air pollution, arguing it inflates healthcare costs, reduces economic productivity and agricultural yields, and has put Paris in the EU's bad books. A Committee of Inquiry in the French Senate has described air pollution as an "economic aberration". The committee's …
The number of countries reaching and sustaining 90% coverage of children with routine life-saving vaccinations has doubled since 2000. Updated data on the status of immunization worldwide in 2014 reveal that 129 countries, 6 more than in 2013, now immunize at least 90% of their children with the required 3 …
ust three years ago, Nigeria was a threat to the global push to eradicate polio. Africa’s most populous nation recorded 122 cases in 2012, more than all other countries combined, and funders of the eradication campaign were growing exasperated with the nation’s faltering vaccination efforts and exportation of cases. Now …
A major reservoir supplying drinking water to Beijing and many other cities in northern China has been found to contain heavy metal pollutants at levels far above safe standards, according to a new study by mainland Chinese scientists. Levels of lead in the Danjiangkou reservoir were found to be 20 …
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called for a Central National Emergency Operations Centre to be established and to be on stand-by to deal with future disease outbreaks and related emergencies. Dr Matshidiso Moeti, the WHO's regional director for Africa, said this when addressing a meeting of about 200 high-level …
Worldwide, nearly 1 in 10 people have a mental health disorder, but only 1% of the global health workforce is working in mental health. This means, for example, that nearly half of the world’s population lives in a country where there is less than one psychiatrist per 100 000 people. …
Food Safety regulator FSSAI has finalised 12,000 standards for food additives and ingredients in line with global safety standards Codex, in order to do away with lengthy process of product approval. The move is expected to benefit food companies as they would not require to seek product approval from the …
The slow global response to the Ebola crisis in west Africa suggests that important gaps exist in donor financing for key global functions, such as support for health research and development for diseases of poverty and strengthening of outbreak preparedness. In this Health Policy, we use the International Development Statistics …
