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The problem of female foeticide and sex selection was highlighted as a big public health concern at a seminar on 'Public Health Concerns and Reforms' organised by ORF and RLS in Delhi. It was said that India could witness elimination of 9-10% girls in the times to come.
Public health is the worst spot in India’s economic path despite a recent rise in GDP growth. Without a healthy population and labour force, India cannot hope to compete with countries in the West or the ASEAN.
India can craft a holistic public and preventive health policy paradigm by using Aadhaar to cultivate health-positive behaviours
Climate change poses a significant risk to global food security. Rising temperatures, extreme weather events, and shifting precipitation patterns impact food production, disrupting food supply chains, increasing food prices, and diminishing food safety. These effects are particularly apparent in developing countries, where vulnerable populations struggle to access nutritious foods and small farmers face financial challenges. Tackling the impacts
Mumbai's public healthcare sector is approaching exhaustion. The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM), despite its untiring efforts to provide affordable healthcare through its general hospitals and peripheral centres.
As the frequency of climate-related disasters rise, there is a greater need for a compounded cooperative approach within the global community
Bringing Universal Health Coverage centre-stage will prove too ambitious for many countries without co-opting the private sector.
IPHLs and the PRISM framework offer a comprehensive approach to strengthening India's public health system
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly proliferating the healthcare landscape and has immense promise for improving health outcomes in a resource-constrained setting like India. With emerging technology still finding its footing in the healthcare industry in the country, there are systemic roadblocks to hurdle before AI can be made transformative up to the last mile of public health. AI also carries immense challenges for India’s mostly t
Past debates on waiving certain sections of the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) have centred on issues such as development and technology transfers. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought more urgency to such discussions, prompting India and South Africa to table a waiver proposal in October 2020. This brief discusses the evolution of the TRIPS Agreement and the link between the a
A pandemic of the viral disease COVID-19 has reached millions of people around the world with significant rates of mortality. With no specific treatments or vaccines in the immediate horizon, limiting contact with infected persons, the use of masks, and hand hygiene offer the only mitigation for now. This has led most countries to adopt severe isolation measures, which have in turn caused disruption of economic activity and increased unemployment
Four months since the outbreak of COVID-19, some vital unknowns about the pandemic remain, including IFR (Infection Fatality Rate) and immunity from reinfection. A clearer understanding of the risks posed by COVID-19, informed by science and data in the Indian context, will help the country in mustering an effective strategy to hurdle the crisis. The government must undertake mass antibody testing and scale up healthcare capacity across the count
अपने सॉफ्ट पावर को दिखाने की कोशिश में चीन ने दक्षिण-पूर्�
विश्व स्वास्थ्य दिवस: 2008 से 2019 के बीच भारत में गर्भ निरोध के
भारत को एक पारिवारिक स्वास्थ्य पहचान पत्र (आईडी) के विचार
दुनिया भर के लोगों को जलवायु के अनुकूल मोटे अनाज के उत्पा�
नाक से दवा देना एक सरल, तेज़, व्यवहारिक और भरोसेमंद तरीक़ा
क्या हमने ओमिक्रॉन का सामना करने वाले दुनिया के तमाम देश�
ओमिक्रॉन वेरिएंट के चलते शुरू हुई कोविड-19 महामारी की तीसर
वैश्विक महामारी की बरसी के मौक़े पर चीन ने एक बार फिर अपने
भारत के सफ़ल टीकाकरण अभियान और उसकी रणनीतियों में उपयुक्त
हमें हर हाल में उन कार्यक्रमों में निवेश जारी रखना चाहिए �
इस बार के विश्व जनसंख्या दिवस पर भारत को युवाओं के बीच व्य
किसी व्यक्ति की पसंद और अधिकार पर विश्व जनसंख्या दिवस के �
विश्व की बदलती व्यवस्था बिम्सटेक को दक्षिण एशियाई क्षेत�
As India completes 50 days of lockdown, this report presents the findings of a data-driven enquiry into the extent to which the lockdown has achieved its health objectives and arrested the spread of COVID-19. The success is measured on four parameters: flattening the curve, reducing the growth rate of new cases, containing the spread, and improving healthcare capacity. The findings show that while the lockdown has flattened the curve to an extent
As World Hepatitis Day is being observed, it is imperative to be aware of this public health threat, especially since the incidence of hepatitis cases
Unfortunately, policy advancements in mental health services have been left wanting due to the overwhelming public health burden of a raging pandemic.
Eliminating hepatitis calls for a comprehensive strategy at the global level, with compound and multisectoral coordination among society, healthcare p
As the Omicron wave in Africa recedes, hard lockdowns seem to be a thing of the past
डिजिटलीकरण की कोशिशों के चलते भारत आज साइबर हमलों का निश�
This year, more than any other in recent memory, we experienced a public health emergency in the shape of charts and data which told the stories of th
India’s endeavour to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a well-defined and time-bound manner is critical for national and global development. This paper examines India’s data availability to assess the SDGs related to health and nutrition. While India is still facing severe challenges of generating disaggregated information on mortality and cause-specific deaths, the desired data on nutrition and healthcare utilisation are la
