-Livemint.com * The transport sector is also the main source for PM2.5 emissions, a pollutant which can have disastrous long-term impact of human Health * With as many as 3,182 industries located across the Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR), industrial pollution adds about 18.6% to the bad air quality NEW DELHI: As Delhi struggles to cope with one of the biggest Health emergencies due to severe levels of air pollution, it has not quite...
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Common cancer prevalence may be way higher than estimated -Sumi Sukanya Dutta
-The New Indian Express Government data has revealed that the number of per lakh cancer incidence in India, at nearly 258 per lakh population, is way higher than what was recorded earlier in 2016. NEW DELHI: The prevalence rate of common cancer in India could be much higher than estimated by national registry for the disease, maintained by the Indian Council for Medical Research. The recently released National Health Profile 2019 has...
More »Air pollution in Delhi-NCR: Act, for your children's sake -Sunita Narain
-Down to Earth We are doing too little too late We can’t breathe in Delhi. It is a public Health emergency as pollutants in the air have spiked to extremely toxic levels. Officially, the air quality is in the severe+ zone, which means that it is bad for even the Healthy, forget about what it will do to our children, aged and the already vulnerable. But what I want to discuss is...
More »Explained: What National Health Profile says about targeted, actual Health spend -Abantika Ghosh
-The Indian Express The National Health Profile (NHP) is an annual stocktaking exercise on the Health of the Health sector. At a time when Universal Health Coverage has become the new buzzword of Healthcare in India since Ayushman Bharat, the National Health Profile 2019 throws up sobering figures. Between 2009-10 and 2018-19, India’s public Health spend as a percentage of GDP went up by just 0.16 percentage points from 1.12% to...
More »Diseases linked to a degraded environment continue to ravage India -Vibha Varshney
-Down to Earth Despite the increasing burden respiratory infections and water borne disease, the budgetary allowance for Health has steadily dipped in the last few years, according to the National Health Report A degraded environment filled with air and water pollution continues to affect Health of people in India, according to the National Health Report (NHP) released on October 31, 2019. Air pollution-linked acute respiratory infections contributed 68.47 per cent to the morbidity...
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