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Life expectancy gaps driven by uneven access to health care services: WHO

In many circumstances, men access health care less than women. Men are much more likely to die from preventable and treatable non-com...

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Astana Declaration commits to achieve Universal Health Coverage

The United Nations Member States have promised to strengthen primary health care as an ‘essential’ step towards achieving universal...

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ASHA workers can play a Significant Role in managing Non-communicable Diseases

India is a country where quality health care remains a privilege of the rich and influential. But a silent army of women, clad in pink sarees, ...

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ICD -11: Simplifying the Codes

Half a century ago, a disease like schizophrenia, would probably never be diagnosed similarly in countries acro...

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The Doctors who changed the Face of Healthcare in Maharashtra

Dr. Rani Bang and Dr. Abhay Bang are a doctor couple who were recently awarded the Padma Shri for their revolut...

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Health Policy Focuses On Expanding Access, Quality: Secy

Expanding access of medical facilities, reducing treatment costs and improving quality are the three major objectives of the recently-released National Health Policy, a top...

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Motorbike Ambulance, A Boon For Tribals In Naxal Belt

Virtually cut-off from the modern world, tribals living in inaccessible terrain and dense forests of Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Narayanpur district never imagined that t...

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High Rate Of Maternal Mortality, C-Section Cause For Concern

Even after achieving an enviable position in primary health care, the State continues to have a high maternal mortality rate (MMR). With 250 mothers dying in child birth ag...

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India's Maternal Care Crisis: Is There A Solution?

Nitu Paswan was four months pregnant when she met a community worker from the?Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action. Paswan, a 25-year old from Dombivli, a cit...

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The Labour Room Bullies

Obstetric violence, the abuse of pregnant women by health workers, is shockingly common in the Indian medical system though it is rarely talked about. Recently, three infan...

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