Dietary guidelines for India 2024
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) recently revised the dietary guidelines for Indians to provide healthier diet and lifestyle recommendations, ensuring dietary and nutritional requirements
Child Health
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Hyderabad: Kids living in urban areas most hit by air pollution
Children living in urban areas are more affected by air pollution than those living in rural areas, revealed the study. Hyderabad: A study on how air pollution affects children shows that it affects
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Measles-rubella vaccination campaign to be launched today
PATNA: State health minister Mangal Pandey will inaugurate measles-rubella vaccination campaign at Gardanibagh Girls High school on Tuesday. The five-week-long campaign is expected to cover four crore
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70 Mumbai schools continue to refuse measles rubella vaccine
MUMBAI: Around 70 schools in the city continue to refuse the measles rubella vaccination even as the campaign comes to close in a fortnight. BMC officials said that in the last 45 days since the programme
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London's ultra-low emission zone: good or bad idea?
The case for: ‘Children’s lungs can’t wait’ “I’m just really glad the ULEZ is coming. Children’s lungs can’t wait,” says Jemima Hartshorn, a Brixton resident who helped set up campaign group Mums For
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Delhi: Why make us part of vaccine project, ask govt, private school teachers
Teachers have been told to be part of the vaccination teams, along with the designated health workers, and to create awareness and sensitisation regarding the vaccine among students and parents in all
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Impact of community-based health insurance on child health outcomes: evidence on stunting from Rural Uganda
While community-based health insurance (CBHI) becomes increasingly integrated into health systems in developing countries, there is still limited research and evidence on its probable health impacts beyond
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Multi-dimensional child deprivation in Ethiopia: first national estimates
“Multi-dimensional Child Deprivation in Ethiopia - First National Estimates,” the report studied child poverty in nine dimensions – development/stunting, nutrition, health, water, sanitation, and housing.
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Fat is in the fire: Delhi private schools found wanting on food safety
NEW DELHI: The kids aren’t eating healthy: an inspection of at least 10 private schools in Delhi has revealed that these institutions don’t have a canteen policy in place and, in most cases, the students
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Survive and thrive: transforming care for every small and sick newborn- key findings
Transforming care for the 30 million vulnerable newborns who are currently being left behind is a smart investment in the health and development of future generations. It will also significantly move us
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Funding and services needed to achieve universal health coverage: applications of global, regional, and national estimates of utilisation of outpatient visits and inpatient admissions from 1990 to 2016, and unit costs from 1995 to 2016
<p>To inform plans to achieve universal health coverage (UHC), <a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/universal_health_coverage.pdf" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/media/iep/homepage/download.jpg"