The report entitled Economic Burden of Tobacco Related Diseases in India (please click here to download the Executive Summary), supported by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India and the WHO Country Office for India, was developed by the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI). The report estimates direct and indirect costs from all diseases caused…
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Please click here to access the latest edition of Rural Health Statistics in India 2012 that was released by the Union health ministry. The report provides detailed statistics on rural health infrastructure on the basis of information available up to March, 2012 and data provided by the States and Union Territories. According to the UNICEF report titled Committing to Child…
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According to the Pneumonia Progress Report, 2012, released by IVAC and John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, please click here to access: • The 2000-2010 decade brought a significant reduction in overall child mortality, from 9.6 to 7.6 million. Pneumonia continues to be the number one killer of children around the world-causing 18% of all child mortality,…
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According to Children in India 2012-A Statistical Appraisal, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, GoI, please click here to access: Neonatal Mortality Rate • In 2010, the neonatal mortality rate (Probability of dying in the first month of life, expressed per 1,000 live births) at national level is at 33 and ranges from 19 in urban areas to…
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According to WHO Global Report: Mortality Attributable to Tobacco (2012), please click here to access: • Globally 12% of all deaths among adults aged 30 years and over were attributed to tobacco as compared with 16% in India, 17% in Pakistan and 31% in Bangladesh. • In India, the death rate from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) [1096 per 100,000…
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According to the report titled: AIDS at 30: Nations at the crossroads (2011), which has been brought out by UNAIDS, please click here to access: • The number of people living with HIV was around 34 million worldwide in 2010. • There were 2.6 million new HIV infections worldwide in 2009. • Between 1981 and 2000, the number…
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Please click here to access the Trends in Maternal Mortality: 1990 to 2008 Estimates developed by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA and The World Bank: According to A Fair Chance at Life: Why Equity Matters for Children (2010), which has been prepared by Save the Children, please click here to access: • In 2000, the world’s governments committed themselves to make a two-thirds…
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According to the World Health Statistics 2009, please click here to access: • The proportion of under-nourished children under five years of age declined from 27% in 1990 to 20% in 2005. • Some 27% fewer children died before their fifth birthday in 2007 than in 1990. • Maternal mortality has barely changed since 1990. • One third of 9.7 million people…
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KEY TRENDS • According to The State of the World’s Children 2019 report, the proportion of children under 5 years who are either stunted, wasted or overweight was 54 percent for India in 2015, 49 percent for Afganistan, 46 percent for Bangladesh in 2014, 43 percent for Nepal in 2016, 43 percent for Pakistan in 2018, 40 percent for…
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