Health and Family wellfare
India trails in Global Hunger Index
In News: India trails in Global Hunger Index The Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2019 has ranked India a lowly 102 among the 117 countries it has mapped. In 2018, India was pegged at 103 but last year 119 countries were mapped. So while the rank is one better this year, in reality, India is not better off in comparison to the other countries. On the ... .Read more
Updated on 18 October, 2019 GS2 Governance International Relations Health and Family wellfare
TB cases see decrease in India
In news According to the World Health Organization (WHO), -2019 edition of the Global Tuberculosis (TB) Report tuberculosis incidence rate in India has decreased by almost 50,000 patients over the past year. About the Global Tuberculosis Report : The report notes that in 2017, India had 27.4 lakh TB patients which came down to 26.9 lakh in 2018.... .Read more
Updated on 18 October, 2019 GS2 Health and Family wellfare
Manual Scavenging in India: Issues and way forward
Manual scavenging refers to the unsafe and manual removal of raw (fresh and untreated) human excreta from buckets or other containers that are used as toilets or from the pits of simple pit latrines. Despite a 2013 law prohibiting employment of manual scavengers, a government survey recently has identified 54,130 people engaged in this job as of July 2019. I... .Read more
Updated on 12 October, 2019 GS1 GS2 Society Governance Social issues & Justice 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
