Here is a quick lowdown on West Bengal’s performance on vital health parameters and how the state’s healthcare has been able to perform well on some indicators and faces challenges across others ...
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The government of India aims to achieve 90 per cent vaccination coverage among children below the age of two years and so in a bid to ease the task of immunisation for the field workers, Vihara Innovation Network has designed a vaccine delivery kit that can carry all the items required to administer vaccines in a simple and efficient manner ...
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According to the National Nutrition Strategy of 2017, the country aims to reduce malnutrition among children by focusing on multiple factors like breastfeeding, dietary diversification, deworming and better access to clean water and sanitation among others ...
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Malnutrition can cause irreversible damage to children’s brain development and their physical growth, leading to a diminished capacity to learn, poorer performance in school, greater susceptibility to infection and disease and a lifetime of lost earning potential ...
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The study was based on the data which followed 10,000 teens over a 10 year period. Every two years, study subjects are interviewed, given a set of tests including brain scan ...
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Over the course of 10 years, not much has changed in Jharkhand, when it comes to its battle Malnutrition. But the state showed a downward trend in wasting when in India wasting rate saw an increase by 1.2 per cent ...
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When Emissions of the major pollutants like particulate matter (PM), sulfur oxides, among others, were reduced by 73 per cent between 1990 and 2015 in the US, the US gross domestic product grew by more than 250 per cent, noted the study - 'Health Benefits of Air Pollution Reduction' published in the American Thoracic Society's journal ...
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Air pollution may contribute to the development of asthma in children, low birth weight and pre-term birth, and neurological or cognitive disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease ...
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The ‘Poshan On Wheels’ initiative will help provide free nutritious meals to the vulnerable group – from children, lactating mothers to pregnant women in Chandigarh ...
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Swasth Report of Telangana: India’s Youngest State Outperforms The Country In Most Health Indicators
Be it child mortality, malnutrition, anaemia among women and children or diarrhoea, Telangana outdid the overall country’s performance in tackling these health issues ...
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Air pollution has for the first time been linked life-threatening illnesses - including sepsis, kidney failure and urinary tract infections, according to the study published in the journal The British Medical Journal (BMJ) ...
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The Lancet Global Health Journal highlights the disease burden of Anaemia among men in India, says, “One in four men in India suffers from Anaemia” ...
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