Expenditure on treatment of mental illness pushes 20% Indian households into poverty, finds new study
Critical need to provide financial risk protection to reduce the monetary impact of healthcare expenditure on mental illness among households in …
COVID-19: Why India needs a robust public health infrastructure
While we need public health professionals to work in development sector, we can also train them in epidemiology to help create a …
Simply Put: A generic health day in India
International Youth Day: Education needs transforming for children’s mental health
The younger generation has to be equipped with resilience and ability to handle pressures and challenges by inculcating academic excellence and …
Unhealthy affair: Book review - Make Health in India
An exhaustive analysis of the challenges India faces in the health sector
World Mental Health Day: WHO-FIFA installs friendship benches to promote mental-health awareness
Project focuses on sports’ role in promoting mental well-being
Infographic: India lacks rural health centres, human resources to run them
As on March 31,2021, health centres at all three levels are catering to more population than recommended
No integration in India’s disease data collection systems: Niti Aayog
White paper highlights several lacunae including shortage of human resources, occupational health, surveillance; suggests series of measures …
Rajasthan’s Right To Health Bill lacks teeth, say experts
Implementation timeframe, process missing from document
New WHO / ILO guide urges greater safeguards to protect health workers
The joint publication encourages countries to strengthen the protection of health workers by improving the management of occupational health and …
Inequalities in accessing sexual, reproductive healthcare persist: WHO study
Rates of unintended pregnancies, abortions vary widely within the same region and geographies, it says
Less out-of-pocket expenditure for births in public facilities in rural areas, NFHS-5 finds
The latest figures suggest that Manipur spends more OOPE in both rural and urban areas, whereas Gujarat spends less among states and Dadra and …
AMR, flu pandemic again top WHO’s list of health challenges for 2020
UN body also lists newer challenges related to adolescents, emerging technologies and food among others
World Health Day 2022: Here’s looking at health, food & India
A cancer centre is the latest victim of cyber attacks. Why health data hacks keep happening
Nearly half of these ransomware attacks disrupted the health-care services, with impacts including electronic system downtime, cancellations of …
Behind the curve: How COVID-19 exposed India’s apathetic rural health infrastructure
It should not have taken a pandemic for the government to realise the importance of the rural healthcare infrastructure and of universal free …
WHO member states agree on $6.83 billion funding for 2 years; most ambitious yet
Historic 20% increase in assessed contributions after deliberations at 75th World Health Assembly
Mental illness in Africa: Go for community-centred approach, advise experts
Africa has very few psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, social workers working in mental health and psychiatric nurses
Parliamentary committee flags concerns over ‘grossly insufficient’ funding for department of health research
The committee also noted that the demand was much lower compared to Rs 3,467.65 crore demanded for 2022-2023
How international scientific collaborators sideline African researchers
Scientists from sub-Saharan Africa writing research papers on health in their own countries are often not named first or senior author, finds a study
Health for all: WHO launches first-ever roadmap to link health with sustainable economic growth
WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All launches report at 76th World Health Assembly
India’s proposed amendments to IHR demand greater equity in access to healthcare, accountability of WHO
Country sought intermediate public health alert for outbreaks yet to be declared public health emergency
Mental illness in fathers may increase the risk of preterm birth — new research
Stress-related disorders, such as post-traumatic stress disorder, were associated with the highest risk of preterm birth
World not on track to reduce suicide mortality rate by 2030 : WHO
While COVID-19 has increased mental stress globally, a new WHO report shows a crisis was already in place in 2019
Mitigating the Impact of COVID-19 and Strengthening Health Systems in the Middle East and North Africa
This book presents options to mitigate Covid-19 impact.