-The Hindu Maternity entitlements are an important policy tool for encouraging better maternal health. This is why we need to do away with conditionality in cash transfer schemes Since the National Food Security Act (NFSA) was passed in 2013, policy circles have been buzzing with talk of reforms in the public distribution system (PDS). Less well appreciated is the NFSA’s potential to call attention to, and help address, poor maternal nutrition — an aspect...
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Private hospitals have twice the number of C-section deliveries, says govt’s survey -Abantika Ghosh
-The Indian Express In Haryana, the percentage of C-sec deliveries in the private sector is 25.3 per cent in both urban and rural areas. Data across 15 states and Union territories in the National Family Health Survey released recently show that a disproportionately high number of babies are delivered by Caesarean section in the private sector — mostly double that of the government sector. The figures range from 87.1 per cent of...
More »Yes, Delhi, it worked -Michael Greenstone, Santosh Harish, Anant Sudarshan and Rohini Pande
-The Indian Express The odd-even pilot reduced hourly particulate air pollution concentrations by 10-13 per cent. But for the longer run, a congestion-pricing programme may be better Delhi’s ambitious odd-even pilot experiment to reduce the number of cars on the road, and pollution in the air, has come to an end — at least for now. But the question remains: Was it successful? Answering this question is challenging. Air pollution data is...
More »Sharp decline in maternal, child mortality rate
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The overall health status of Indians has improved substantially with a sharp decline in key indicators like maternal and child mortality, fertility rate and malnutrition over the past decade, according to the fourth national family health survey (NFHS-4) 2015-16, which called upon the government to focus more on equity. As per the findings of the survey, the immunization coverage has also increased significantly across the country. Results...
More »One-third of West Bengal kids stunted & underweight, says NFHS-4
A French journalist once wrote: The more things change, the more they stay the same. Perhaps the same can be said about nutritional status of children in West Bengal at present in comparison to the past. At the time when Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, the then Chief Minister of West Bengal, was entertaining private capital in Singur and Nandigram, the rate of undernutrition was quite high in his state. A little less than...
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