India’s life expectancy at birth was 67.3 years in 2021, while it was 83.9 years in Singapore. India also had a staggering MMR of 103, a significantly higher number than that of its neighbours including China (23) and Bhutan (60). The NFHS, one of the biggest surveys across the globe...
In India, Satyanarayana et al. (1995) developed a comprehensive index, the Index of Child Mortality. The Index was designed for monitoring the health status of children for longitudinal assessment and comparison between states. Using data on five indicators (under-five mortality rate, infant mortal...
The answeris a steady and even high birth rate in some regions, and still-improving health and welfare leading to a death rate of around 15 per 1,000 after World War II. Babies were staying alive—infant mortality was down—and people were living longer, especially as developing countries g...
In this context, the present study investigated the association between public health spending and infant and child mortality in India. In the study, data from the first, second, and third National Family Health Survey were used to create a birth cohort for the years 1980 to 2006 that ...
1). Twenty-one cohorts met the inclusion criteria, encompassing 11,448 children and 198,154 total anthropometry measurements from birth to the age of 24 months (Fig. 1). Fig. 1: Summaries of included cohorts. a, Number of observations (in thousands) across cohorts by age in months. b...
The states with highest per capita income have lowest child sex ratio because these states have facilities of pre natal sex determination resulting sex selective abortion resulting in low child sex ratio. Also after the birth of female child, the negligence on health care of the female child ...
In India, about 2.1 million child deaths occur every year, which is the highest number within a single country worldwide.[4] The national under-5 mortality rate is around 87 per 1000 live births, but there is a wide variation between states. For example, in 1998-99 the under-5 mortality...
Petition filed in SC for suo motto notice on child births on roads, youth death incidents NAUSHEHRO FEROZE -- Appropriate spacing in child birth is essential for mother and child health and it is necessary to minimize maternal mortality rate in the country. Appropriate spacing in child birth ...
Girl Child Rights in India Government of India has taken various steps by declaring variety of schemes to make the girl child status better. Some of are: > Sex determination during pregnancy through the clinics has been blocked by the government. ...
Trans children who started puberty blockers at tanner IV grew a median of 1.6cm a year (range 1.5 – 2.9cm), at a lower rate of height growth than pre-pubertal youth. In summary, trans adolescents on puberty blockers at tanner 2 and 3 continue to grow in height at similar rates to ...