infant mortality

Premature baby and hand of the doctor

NHRC Issues Notice to Rajasthan in ‘Botched’ Delivery Case at Govt Hospital

A baby was decapitated during delivery and the NHRC...

Chhattisgarh

Hidden Failures and a Malnourished South: Health and Nutrition in Chhattisgarh

Falak Raza 18/11/2018

While the Health Index 2018 accords a favourable position...

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19,799 Children Died in Maharashtra in 12 Months: Health Minister

The ages of the children who died were not...

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111 Infants Dead in Past Five Months in Adani-Run Hospital, Probe Ordered

Adani Education and Research Foundation-run G.K. General Hospital in...

On November 16, an article in the British Medical Journal Open concluded that severe public spending cuts in the UK were associated with 120,000 deaths between 2010 and 2017. Credit: Jean-Etienne Minh-Duy Poirrier/ Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0

Life Expectancy in Britain Has Fallen So Much That a Million Years of Life Could Disappear by 2058

Danny Dorling and Stuart Gietel-Basten 04/12/2017

In their projections, published in October 2017, statisticians estimated...

Mother playing with child, Jodhpur

Poor Maternal Health Cause for Infant Deaths in Kerala’s Tribal Belt

The Wire Staff 09/06/2017

A central team that travelled to Addappady found lack...

Although India depends on data from sample surveys for tracking health parameters, there is a need to improve civil registration and vital statistics systems. Credit: cdcglobal/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Why It’s a Challenge To Make Quick Sense of India’s Health Data

Oommen C. Kurian 11/01/2017

Even when several government departments and ministries collect data...