Health and Family wellfare
Affordable healthcare in India
Context Recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi while addressing the first-ever high-level meeting on Universal Health Coverage in Newyork, said his government has taken some historic steps like the world's largest health insurance scheme - Ayushman Bharat - to provide access to affordable health care services to all. Meaning of healthcare Heath is ... .Read more
Updated on 26 September, 2019 GS2 Health and Family wellfare
Hepatitis B: About and concerns
On September 3, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, and Thailand became the first four countries in the World Health Organization’s Southeast Asia region to have successfully controlled hepatitis B. The virus is said to be controlled when the disease prevalence is reduced to less than 1% among children less than five years of age. Context Despite the intro... .Read more
Updated on 6 September, 2019 GS2 Health and Family wellfare
Writing out a Clean Bill on Health
Sumant Narain, a civil servant and ex-director in Health in NITI Aayog, stands for the enacted National Medical Commission (NMC) Bill, 2019. He elucidates how enacted NMC Bill will be a step towards the reformed Medical education which is a subject matter of continuous reforms. Highlights of the National Medical Commission Bill, 2019: The NMC Bill, ... .Read more
Updated on 22 August, 2019 GS3 Health and Family wellfare
Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2019 : An In-depth Analysis
Why in news? Cabinet approves the introduction of the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2019. It aims to regulate the practice of surrogacy in the country, prevent exploitation of surrogate mother and protect the rights of children born of surrogacy Background Commercial surrogacy or commonly known as “Rent a womb” was legalized in 2001 in order t... .Read more
Updated on 24 July, 2019 GS2 Health and Family wellfare
National Digital Health Blueprint Report
To strengthen Digital India and accelerate the efforts towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC), the Union health ministry has released the National Digital Health Blueprint (NDHB) report. Objectives of National Digital Health Blueprint (NDHB) To establish state-of-the-art digital health systems, for managing the core digital health data, and the in... .Read more
Updated on 17 July, 2019 GS2 Health and Family wellfare
DRINKING WATER FOR RURAL INDIA: FACTS, CHALLENGES, MEASURES & WAY FORWARD
The idea of population health or public health is said to have born in Rome with the development of bath (for hygiene), sewers (drainage), and aqueducts (to supply safe water to cities). Romans brought pure water to all their cities through aqueducts, drained marshes to combat malaria and built sewerage systems. The basic physiological requirement for drinki... .Read more
Updated on 25 June, 2019 GS3 Health and Family wellfare
