Showing posts with label Public Health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Public Health. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Disabled Health Care

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  Eighty-two per cent of the persons with disabilities in the country do not have any health care protection despite the claims of the gover...
Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Go deeper: Editorial on research flagging 82 Indian districts on unwanted pregnancy list

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  This makes it evident that demographic signifiers like higher income & education & better access to healthcare need not always sec...
Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Ignoring Red Lines: Violence Against Health Care in Conflict 2022

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  A report titled “Ignoring Red Lines: Violence Against Health Care in Conflict 2022” was released recently by the Safeguarding Health in Co...
Monday, February 20, 2023

How is Assam faring on the TB eradication front?

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  “My husband is a  buddhu  [illiterate],” 41-year-old Anita Bodo says through her tears. When she was diagnosed with tuberculosis in early ...
Friday, September 23, 2022

Noncommunicable diseases caused 66% deaths in India in 2019: WHO

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  Every year 17 million people under the age of 70 die of NCDs – one every two seconds, and 86% of them live in low and middle-income countr...
Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Who are ASHA workers, the women healthcare volunteers honoured by WHO?

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  The World Health Organisation   has recognised the country’s 10.4 lakh ASHA (Accredited Social Health Activist) workers   as ‘Global Healt...

ASHA: A successful public health experiment rooted in the village community

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  It is a programme that has done well across the country. As skill sets improved, recognition and respect for the ASHA went up. In a way, i...
Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Unequal access to toilets remains a worry, and is central to global feminist movement

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  Inadequate toilet accommodations reflect society’s bias against women in the workplace and public spaces and reinforce the notion that wom...
Thursday, September 30, 2021

Recognising the role of health in India’s social and economic growth

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  Focus on a system that responds to the capacity of the State and other stakeholders in the immediate-term, while building on such capacity...