-India Today Non-communicable diseases like heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and lung disease cause more deaths than infectious diseases globally, according to a WHO report. Nearly three-quarters of all deaths in the world are caused by non-communicable diseases such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes and respiratory Illnesses and 17 million people under the age of 70 die of NCDs every year, according to a report by the World Health Organisation. The WHO report, released...
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What numbers don’t tell us -Maitreyi Misra
-The Hindu Prisons are meant to facilitate rehabilitation but have become disempowering spaces with a mental health crisis The latest numbers are out. 9,180 prisoners with mental Illness, 150 deaths by suicide, five prisoners with schizophrenia and epilepsy have died. While we know the numbers, we do not know what is being considered as a mental Illness and whether these numbers are limited to persons who are in the mental health ward, or...
More »Abhijit Sen, Leading Economist of Indian Agriculture, Passes Away
-TheWire.in Apart from teaching at JNU, he was a member of the Planning Commission from 2004-2014 and headed the Commission on Agricultural Costs and Prices, 1997-2000. New Delhi: Professor Abhijit Sen, a leading expert on the rural economy and a former member of the Planning Commission, died here on Monday night after a brief Illness. He was 72 years old. In an academic career spanning over four decades, Sen taught economics at Sussex,...
More »In 2021, over 45K women died by suicide in India, 23,000 of them are housewives: NCRB data -Sharangee Dutta
-Hindustan Times The report found that Tamil Nadu (3,221) accounted for the most number of suicides among housewives, followed by Madhya Pradesh (3,055), and Maharashtra (2,861). As many as 45,026 women killed themselves in 2021 in India with more than 23,000 of them being housewives, the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report said. This comes even as the rate of deaths by suicides across the country during the year peaked to...
More »Daily wage earners, self-employed persons accounted for every fourth suicide in 2021: NCRB data
-National Herald In 2020 as well, as per the data, daily wage earners accounted for the highest share of people who died by suicide, with 37,666 such cases recorded, which came to 24.6 per cent of the total figure Over 26 percent of the people who died by suicide in 2021 were either daily wage earner or those working as ‘self-employed persons’, says a report released by the National Crime Records Bureau...
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