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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Lead menace
India seems to be doing very little about lead hazards as the paint industry continues using the product
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State sponsors disability
Several UP villages fall prey to crippling disease<br> <font color=navy size=1>(Read full article)</font>
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PILing up pressure
HC tells UP government to submit action taken report on fluorosis incidence
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Administering illness
Hardly a democratic ideal
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Housewarning
Pesticide exposure can lead to leukaemia in children
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Respirable particulate levels in rural households of Andhra Pradesh, India : daily concentrations and exposures
Due to combustion of solid fuels, indoor air pollution seems to be a major contributor to disease in India, but few quantitative exposure assessment studies are available. This study quantified daily average concentrations of respirable particulates in 420 rural homes of Andhra Pradesh and recorded time activity data of 1400 individuals to reconstruct 24-hour average exposures.
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Economic burden of respiratory illness in rural Uttar Pradesh, India
This paper estimates the economic burden of respiratory illness in rural UP (Uttar Pradesh), a state in North India. This is based on a large comprehensive survey covering a sample of 7564 households in 6 districts and 51 villages in UP. The economic value of the days lost due to illness in one month is 4233 million rupees. Cleaner fuels, health education and better health care can avoid some of these expenditures.
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No breather in sight
Research reinforces theory that air pollution and smoking perpetrate asthma
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Posterity at peril
CHILDREN'S HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT (CCHE) . New York Times . Between June 6 and August 15 . 2002 In what is being termed as the most extensive advertising campaign ever done to promote
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Prevalence of overweight in urban Indian adolescent school children
<p>The prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) is increasing in urban India. Overweight in adolescence is a marker of overweight in adult age, and it shows an association