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Health equity through transparency and accountability

Health equity through transparency and accountability

Hindustan Times — Better data is needed to enhance state intervention in health and nutrition and harness the strengths of the well-entrenched private sector to achieve public health goals. To meet the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) over the next 15 years, it is important to measure progress closely and ensure mid-course corrections when needed.
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The encephalitis challenge

The encephalitis challenge

The Hindu — Barely a month before the deaths of children in Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh, allegedly due to the disruption of oxygen supply in the BRD Medical College, the U.P. Health Minister had addressed a consultation in Lucknow organised by the Observer Research Foundation.
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Nutrition As The Main Pillar To A Healthy And Wealthy India

Nutrition As The Main Pillar To A Healthy And Wealthy India

NDTV — Countries like India are in a phase of transition where the public policy challenges presented by overnutrition are in addition to those posed by undernutrition.There is need for concerted action across both nutrition specific and nutrition sensitive interventions to accelerate progress on all the nutrition-related SDGs.
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Stunting, Malnutrition And Its Impact On India's Workforce

Stunting, Malnutrition And Its Impact On India's Workforce

NDTV — Stunting has permanent and irreversible consequences, hindering the physical and mental development of an individual. It has been associated with a high risk of diabetes, obesity and hypertension, etc. While the importance of preventing stunting far exceeds the economic aspect, it is important to be aware of all the benefits and returns that investing in nutrition can bring for the country.
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Promoting Exclusive Breastfeeding: Essential For Better Nutrition In India

Promoting Exclusive Breastfeeding: Essential For Better Nutrition In India

NDTV — To meet the World Health Assembly target for breastfeeding, the government needs to promote breastfeeding in a big way. At the same time, it is important to create awareness about the benefits of breastfeeding, as well as initiate steps to improve breastfeeding practices.
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Investing In Human Capital: Towards An Anaemia Free India

Investing In Human Capital: Towards An Anaemia Free India

NDTV — Anaemic women tend to be at a higher risk of maternal mortality India's long-term growth strategy must be pegged to its labour force, whatever the economic model of choice maybe. This in effect means that attaining optimal growth rates would be difficult, to say the least, without the effective participation of women, who constitute half the country's population.
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China As India's Main Bulk Drugs Supplier: Helplessness Or Cautious Evolution? - Analysis

China As India's Main Bulk Drugs Supplier: Helplessness Or Cautious Evolution? - Analysis

eurasiareview.com — By Observer Research Foundation There is indeed no room for complacency while dealing with China, but as a big market for Chinese goods, that should not prevent India from using China to its advantage. By Oommen C. Kurian Ever since China undermined India's Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) bid, regular calls to boycott Chinese goods are made in India.
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UP's healthcare paradox: From worse than Haiti to better than rest of India

UP's healthcare paradox: From worse than Haiti to better than rest of India

Hindustan Times — At a time when India's sex ratio at birth is low and declining- from 909 (2011) to 887 (2014) -there are, in poor, populous Uttar Pradesh (UP), districts such as Aligarh, Moradabad, Mainpuri, Deoria and Balrampur, with sex ratios at birth exceeding 1000-in other words, better than any state in India.
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Punjab election: More wasted children, anaemic people than before in the state

Punjab election: More wasted children, anaemic people than before in the state

Hindustan Times — The popular caricature of Punjabis is of a robust, relatively rich people made that way by hearty eating and energetic living. The reality today: Wasting (low weight-for-height) among children has increased from 9.2% in 2005 to 15.6% in 2015, and one in four is still stunted (low height for age), according to an analysis of the latest government data, by the Observer Research Foundation.
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Among poll-bound states, UP spends least on health, reflects in its ill-health

Among poll-bound states, UP spends least on health, reflects in its ill-health

Hindustan Times — With 200 million people, Uttar Pradesh (UP) has about the same population as Brazil; an economy the size of Qatar's-which has 2.4 million people, the same as the UP town of Bijnore; per capita gross domestic product (GDP) comparable to Kenya's; and an infant mortality rate that rivals The Gambia, a poverty-ridden, peanut-growing west-African nation.
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Health data variations show why UP's health programme needs overhaul

Health data variations show why UP's health programme needs overhaul

Business Standard — At a time when India's sex ratio at birth is low and declining-from 909 (2011) to 887 (2014)-there are, in poor, populous Uttar Pradesh (UP), districts such as Aligarh, Moradabad, Mainpuri, Deoria and Balrampur, with sex ratios at birth exceeding 1000-in other words, better than any state in India.
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#Elections2017: More Wasted Children, Anaemic Men, Women Than Before In Once Robust Punjab

#Elections2017: More Wasted Children, Anaemic Men, Women Than Before In Once Robust Punjab

indiaspend.com — Patients queue up outside the out-patient department at the Civil Hospital in Tarn Taran, 25 km south of Amritsar. Punjab's government hospitals offer only as many beds as poorer states and absenteeism among staff is high, driving its citizens to private healthcare. The popular
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UP spends least on health, ill health a major concern

UP spends least on health, ill health a major concern

Business Standard — With 200 million people, Uttar Pradesh (UP) has about the same population as Brazil; an economy the size of Qatar's-which has 2.4 million people, the same as the UP town of Bijnore; per capita gross domestic product (GDP) comparable to Kenya's; and an infant mortality rate that rivals The Gambia, a poverty-ridden, peanut-growing west-African nation.
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Good, bad, ugly: Health of 5 states going to polls

Good, bad, ugly: Health of 5 states going to polls

Yahoo India — While healthcare has largely been a neglected issue in past general elections, major parties started talking about health in their manifestos from 2004. In some states, there's evidence it is becoming increasingly important, a 2014 Lancet report said, citing the Rajiv Aarogyasri Community Health
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Down to the district: Health of the five states going to polls

Down to the district: Health of the five states going to polls

Business Standard — While healthcare has largely been a neglected issue in past Indian general elections, major parties started talking about health in their manifestos from 2004.
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Assembly elections 2017: Know the healthcare status of these five poll-bound states

Assembly elections 2017: Know the healthcare status of these five poll-bound states

Zee News — New Delhi: While healthcare has largely been a neglected issue in past general elections, major parties started talking about health in their manifestos from 2004. In some states, there's evidence it is becoming increasingly important, a 2014 Lancet report said, citing the Rajiv Aarogyasri Community Health Insurance Scheme for poor families as a major reason for a second term in 2009 for the late Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y.S.R.
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How the five poll-bound Indian states fare in terms of health

How the five poll-bound Indian states fare in terms of health

Scroll.in — While healthcare has largely been a neglected issue in past Indian general elections, major parties started talking about health in their manifestos from 2004.
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Down To The District: The Health Of 5 States Going To Polls

Down To The District: The Health Of 5 States Going To Polls

thequint.com — While healthcare has largely been a neglected issue in past Indian general elections, major parties started talking about health in their manifestos from 2004.
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Good, bad, ugly: Health of 5 states going to polls

Good, bad, ugly: Health of 5 states going to polls

Financial Express — While healthcare has largely been a neglected issue in past general elections, major parties started talking about health in their manifestos from 2004.In some states, there's evidence it is becoming increasingly important, a 2014 Lancet report said, citing the Rajiv Aarogyasri Community Health Insurance Scheme for poor families as a major reason for a second term in 2009 for the late Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y.S.R.
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Down to the district: The healthcare crisis in 5 states going to polls

Down to the district: The healthcare crisis in 5 states going to polls

Business Standard — While healthcare has largely been a neglected issue in past Indian general elections, major parties started talking about health in their manifestos from 2004.
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A Look At The Health And Nutrition Status of Five Poll-bound States - Everylifecounts.NDTV.com

A Look At The Health And Nutrition Status of Five Poll-bound States - Everylifecounts.NDTV.com

NDTV — By Oommen C. Kurian, Shalini Rudra, Rhea Colaco and Raushan Tara Jaswal/ IndiaSpend While healthcare has largely been a neglected issue in past general elections, major parties started talking about health in their manifestos from 2004.
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Down To The District: The health of 5 states going to the polls

Down To The District: The health of 5 states going to the polls

Firstpost — While healthcare has largely been a neglected issue in past Indian general elections, major parties started talking about health in their manifestos from 2004.
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Assembly Elections 2017: Healthcare Status of 5 States Going to Polls

Assembly Elections 2017: Healthcare Status of 5 States Going to Polls

CNN-News18 — While healthcare has largely been a neglected issue in past general elections, major parties started talking about health in their manifestos from 2004. In some states, there's evidence it is becoming increasingly important, a 2014 Lancet report said, citing the Rajiv Aarogyasri Community Health Insurance Scheme for poor families as a major reason for a second term in 2009 for the late Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y.S.R.
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Why It's a Challenge To Make Quick Sense of India's Health Data

Why It's a Challenge To Make Quick Sense of India's Health Data

The Wire (India) — Data released by the Registrar General of India in December 2016 showed that India's infant mortality rate (IMR) had come down to 37 in 2015 - with 41 in rural areas and 25 in urban areas. While this is better than what was previously predicted by the Ministry of Statistics, India is still way off the mark.
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