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Quality Of Death: UK Tops, India 67th, Above China
India has been ranked 67th of 80 countries on the 2015 Quality of Death Index, lower than South Africa (34), Brazil...
How India Cut Neonatal Tetanus Mortality By 99.76%
In 2012, a 12-day-old boy (we will call him “Baby Boy”) in Assam's Sivasagar district could not be given his feed...
How Dengue Has Breached India's Class Barriers
A health worker fumigates a residential area to prevent the spread of dengue fever in Chandigarh on September 20, 2015....
Verbal Jugglery Lets 86% Indian Households Have 'Safe Drinking Water'
About 86% of Indian households have access to "safe drinking water", according to official data, yet...
How Ignorance Cuts India's Healthy Life By Half
In 2013, Indian men could expect to live to 64.2 years, 6.9 years longer than in 1990, according to the Global Burden of...
Why Masahun Khatun And 50,000 Pregnant Women Died
Rafiq Khatun, a daily wage labourer from Phulvari Sharif in eastern Bihar, lost his wife Masahun in a botched abortion. ...
How India's Tax System Helps Heavily Taxed Cigarettes Flourish
In March 2015—in response to a drop in sales as taxes more than doubled over four years—India’s leading cigarette...
Why India Ignores A $16-Billion Smoking-Led Health Crisis
In January this year, the government asked for public opinion on tougher new laws to curb smoking: To raise the minimum...
