Despite Increased Spending, Health Outcomes Remain Poor in Backward...
Mumbai: The Covid-19 pandemic, and particularly its second wave, exposed serious deficiencies in the public health...
Essential Outreach Services Hit In States With Worst Health Indicators
Mumbai: Six of the eight most socioeconomically backward Indian states--together called the empowered action...
How Odisha’s Poorest Districts Are Benefiting From Social Audits
Mumbai: Social auditing has helped improve the reach and quality of welfare measures meant for the poor in six of...
Expenses Fell, Usage Rose After Public Healthcare Improved In 3 TN Blocks
Mumbai: Strengthening rural public health systems in three Tamil Nadu blocks made more people utilise their services...
Muslims Have Highest Fertility Rate, Lack Access To Healthcare
Mumbai: Hindus have India’s highest infant mortality rate with 41.6 deaths per 1,000 live births and the third highest...
Budget 2018: 522 Mn Indians Still Defecate In The Open, Putting Them At Risk Of Disease & Poverty
More Indians than ever before now have access to a toilet, but little attention to education and changing attitudes...
Sanitation Failures Kill, Stunt Children Most In UP, 4 Other States
Despite recently revealed improvements, primitive sanitation is killing, retarding the growth and leaving susceptible to...
Kerala = New Zealand; Many States Worse Than African Nations in Infant, Under-5 Mortality
India's 16-point reduction in its infant mortality rate (IMR) over a decade to 2015 is revealing wide variation...
