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Led By Wealthy Urban Women, Caesarean Sections Rise In India
Over 21 years to 2014, the richest quintile--top 20% of the population by income​--undergoing caesarean section...
#Elections2017: New Worries Creep Into Seemingly Healthy Goa
Patients queue up at the registration desk of the out-patient department at the Goa Medical College & Hospital. In Goa,...
#Elections2017: UP Spends Least On Health, Reflects In Its Ill-Health
With 200 million people, Uttar Pradesh (UP) has about the same population as Brazil; an economy the size of...
Down To The District: The Health Of 5 States Going To Polls
Seven-month-old Deepak, who weighs 4 kg and suffers from severe malnutrition, lies on a bed in a Nutritional...
States With More Educated Women Have Healthier Children
Policy-makers aiming to improve child health outcomes would do well to target more resources at women’s education,...
UP Slides To Last Place In India’s Infant And Under-Five Mortality Rankings
India's most populous state has slid past Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh to record the country's worst infant and...
Krishnaveni’s Story And The Era Of Women Panchayat Presidents
P Krishnaveni, the Dalit former president of the Thalaiyuthu panchayat, in Tirunelveli district, Tamil Nadu, lost...
India Reduces Baby Deaths But Still Hasn’t Met 2012 Targets
First, the good news: 37 babies died for every 1,000 that were born in 2015, two better than the government’s...
