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. …
While the official estimates of poverty in India are derived from the consumption expenditure data, economic proxies are increasingly used to explain the differentials in health and healthcare utilisation in population-based surveys. Using data from the World Health Survey, India, 2003, covering a nationally representative sample of 10,750 households and …
The global economic crisis has slowed the pace of poverty reduction in developing countries, and is hampering progress toward the other Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), says the Global Monitoring Report 2010: The MDGs after the Crisis. The crisis is having an impact in several key areas of the MDGs, including …
N. Ram In a thrust to provide sustained support to life-saving innovations in India and around the world, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is placing new emphasis on innovations that effect social and cultural change to bring down the unacceptably high death rates for children under five years of …
We examine whether access to aspects of social infrastructure, such as toilet facilities, drinking water on the premises and clean cooking fuels, leads to a decline in the incidence of undernutrition among women, which remains quite high in India. The analysis, based on the National Family Health Survey-3 (2005-06) unit-level …
BHUBANESWAR: Even as Orissa continues to struggle with high infant and maternal mortality rates, the latest evaluation report of the National Rural Health Mission has revealed the failures of the State health apparatus. Beset with a high MMR of 303, the State has to ensure earnest implementation of Janani Suraksha …
New Delhi: Global aid is being spent on diseases like HIV, TB and malaria rather than addressing malnutrition and sanitation in the 30 high burden countries that have the worst statistics relating to maternal and child health. An independent study said
Surveys indicate that the Janani Suraksha Yojana, which offers cash assistance to pregnant women opting for institutional deliveries, has increased the number of such births in hospitals. Can this increase be used as an indicator of a decrease in the maternal mortality rate? It is likely that the cash incentive …
Surveys indicate that the Janani Suraksha Yojana, which offers cash assistance to pregnant women opting for institutional deliveries, has increased the number of such births in hospitals. Can this increase be used as an indicator of a decrease in the maternal mortality rate? It is likely that the cash incentive …
Pune Maharastra still figures among states that show a high prevalence of malnutrition and it is the slum areas in urban pockets that have an increasing incidence, said a report on the nutritional crisis in Maharashtra. The report also observed that not only are half the women anaemic in the …
Creating awareness Ranchi, Feb. 3: The USAID has roped in media consultant Aishwarya Communication to spread awareness about maternal anaemia in nondescript villages of Santhal Pargana, particularly in Godda and Dumka. Through All India Radio
Concern that underfunded and weak health systems are impeding the achievement of the health Millennium Development Goals in low-income countries led to the creation of a High Level Taskforce on Innovative International Financing for Health Systems in September, 2008. This report summarises the key challenges faced by the Taskforce and …
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry for Population Welfare is setting up eight Multi-purpose Service Centres (MSC) one each in provinces, Islamabad, FATA, AJK and Gilgit-Baltistan as a pilot project, said Population Welfare Minister Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan on Saturday during a surprise visit to Family Welfare Centres (FWCs) and Reproductive Health Services …
