Simply put: Which way health in India?
Simply Put: India’s charge against COVID-19
Simply Put: Budget
Unhealthy affair: Book review - Make Health in India
An exhaustive analysis of the challenges India faces in the health sector
Future-wise: Here is how governments can make budget data more accessible
The key is to de-jargonize the data and make it simple and user friendly
As told to Parliament (March 28, 2023): India recorded three H3N2 deaths, 1,317 cases
All that was discussed in the House through the day
Over 80% Indians not covered under health insurance: NSSO survey
Most people finance hospitalisation by digging into savings and borrowing
Poor infrastructure, staff crunch continue to plague healthcare in rural India: Centre
Less than half the Primary Health Centres function on a 24x7 basis
Thirty years of rural health research: South Africa’s Agincourt studies offer unique insights
A health and socio-demographic surveillance system was established in remote, rural South Africa in 1992
Punjab closer to ODF sustainability with community toilet guidelines
Recommendations not clear on how to treat waste, reuse groundwater
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
More than half of India’s April COVID-19 deaths were in rural districts
Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, 7 other states / UTs recorded more cases and deaths in rural districts last month
Technological innovation to drive healthcare interventions
Data standardisation, security and privacy protection have to be addressed and regulated before rolling out such interventions
This district in Bihar ignores antenatal care; budget allocation very low: survey
Almost 95 per cent of funds allocated for nutrition intervention for pregnant women in Bihar’s Purnea district were utilised for …
Easy access, longer shelf life, promotion: ICRISAT finds reasons why rural India shifted to sugars & carbs
Healthy fruits, cereals & vegetables are also becoming difficult to source, finds research
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 …
Africa needs preventive approach to health care instead of a curative one: experts
African countries need to understand the link between climate change, migration and exposure to health hazards
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 …
COVID-19: More than half of India still not testing enough, data shows
Data shows that testing is relatively limited to people with high suspicion of COVID-19 and may miss new chains of transmission in the community
Union Budget 2019-20: Hardly any mention of health sector in Budget speech
Among others, fund allocation for upgrading district hospitals to medical colleges goes south
World Health Day: ‘Enable all rural Indian girls to avail education, regardless of categories’
In states like Rajasthan, pre-matric scholarships are restricted to socially disadvantaged populations and sums vary across categories, which …
Govt wishes to achieve healthcare goals by spending Rs 3 a day?
According to the latest National Health Profile, India is one of the countries with the lowest public health spending
Fungal infections in the brain aren’t just the stuff of movies — Africa grapples with a deadly epidemic
With poorly funded and overburdened healthcare systems, many African countries are not well prepared to deal with fungal infections
No medical staff, equipment in ‘model’ state Gujarat’s villages, as COVID-19 wreaks havoc
COVID-19 has spread to all of Gujarat’s 18,000 villages, alleges a state Congress member
Untreated wastewater in developing countries: 14 billion a day and we don’t know where it ends up
This water causes diarrhoeal diseases that kill 800 children every day, mostly in India, Afghanistan and Congo