AES and Gorakhpur's BRD hospital: A case study in why primary healthcare needs beefing up
AES cases haven't yet come up this season in UP, but BRD is crammed already with patients, some of whom have travelled 100 km
Silent sufferers
Indifferent primary health care in developing countries could lead to mental depression taking the form of a mass illness
Brain disease plaguing Muzaffarpur children is not encephalitis
Encephalopathy is a biochemical disease, while encephalitis results from a viral infection
Health care needs state control
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Women's Day: These 900,000 health workers have no reason to celebrate
No end in sight for these accredited social health activists who have not received remuneration for months
New mobile app may help in addressing heart disease in rural areas
A group of Indian and Australian scientists has developed and tested a mobile application-based system that promises to help doctors and health …
DMF should look beyond infrastructure
Sanctions under a non-profit trust for the develpoment of mining disrtricts needs to ensure adequate resources to improve the quality of and …
Farrukhabad children deaths show the rampant mismanagement in government hospitals
49 children have reportedly died in a month in Uttar Pradesh’s Farrukhabad district hospital due to lack of oxygen supply, but the …
Astana Declaration: Not just health, but affordable health for all
UN’s 192 member countries agree to strengthen primary healthcare on the 40th anniversary of Alma Ata Declaration
COVID-19 effect: Healthcare costs push over half billion into extreme poverty
A wide gap in affordable healthcare access, combined with reduced income can exacerbate crisis
Over 56.8 million people need palliative care each year: WHO
By 2060, the need for palliative care at the end of life is expected to nearly double
More than half the world's population does not receive essential health care services
Under such circumstances, achieving universal health coverage by 2030 seems like an ambitious target
How drone, mobile-based platform bridging health care gap in Africa
Innovations are happening in the planet's remotest places hosting the poorest, and they aim to solve Africa’s biggest challenge of giving …
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 …
Bastar beyond Maoists: tale of a rich region and its poor people
The obsession with insurgents is so deep that no one is paying attention to health and education in this ancient and beautiful land
No health without wealth
The latest NSSO data shows that people are being forced to take loans and sell assets for treatment as the government healthcare system deteriorates
Primary health care, community health workers bag spotlight at WHA
The member states decided to implement Declaration of Astana and allocate adequate resources to support community health workers
Niti Aayog's health index: Topper Kerala's performance slumps
The state performed worse than last time and those with a not-so-good overall score showed improvement
Paramedics show the way
How hundreds of villages in Bangladesh have overcome child and maternal mortality 10 years before the MDG deadline
Study flouts basics in privatizing healthcare
CII study recommends greater private role in India's healthcare sector, but the document centres around the lucrative tertiary care market only
Setback to health insurance
Private hospitals in Chhattisgarh, Andhra refuse to treat under government insurance scheme
Health care should be cheaper and more accessible
N H ANTIA Director of the Foundation for Research in Community Health, Pune, Maharashtra is striving to promote the concept of better health care …
Budget 2023-24: Marginal rise in health budget not enough to keep up with inflation, experts say
Lesser allocation for health over the years also indicates that we need to go a long way to reach the target of spending 2.5 per cent of GDP for …
Good scheme in bad health
A little known community monitoring scheme could prove handy for the new government, which is readying to revamp the country's healthcare system