Expenditure on treatment of mental illness pushes 20% Indian households into poverty, finds new study

Critical need to provide financial risk protection to reduce the monetary impact of healthcare expenditure on mental illness among households in …

India's Health Crisis

Insufficient allocation for the health sector pushing 7% of Indians below the poverty line and about 23% of the sick can't afford healthcare

COVID-19: Why India needs a robust public health infrastructure

While we need public health professionals to work in development sector, we can also train them in epidemiology to help create a …

Simply Put: A generic health day in India

International Youth Day: Education needs transforming for children’s mental health

The younger generation has to be equipped with resilience and ability to handle pressures and challenges by inculcating academic excellence and …

More than half the world's population does not receive essential health care services

Under such circumstances, achieving universal health coverage by 2030 seems like an ambitious target

Unhealthy affair: Book review - Make Health in India

An exhaustive analysis of the challenges India faces in the health sector

Health spending increases in lower-income countries: WHO report

However, people are still paying too much out of their own pockets

Electing India’s health transformation

The new government must convene a meeting of central and state health ministers annually, to build consensus across the political spectrum and …

World Mental Health Day: WHO-FIFA installs friendship benches to promote mental-health awareness

Project focuses on sports’ role in promoting mental well-being

Infographic: India lacks rural health centres, human resources to run them

As on March 31,2021, health centres at all three levels are catering to more population than recommended

No integration in India’s disease data collection systems: Niti Aayog

White paper highlights several lacunae including shortage of human resources, occupational health, surveillance; suggests series of measures …

Rajasthan’s Right To Health Bill lacks teeth, say experts

Implementation timeframe, process missing from document

Less out-of-pocket expenditure for births in public facilities in rural areas, NFHS-5 finds

The latest figures suggest that Manipur spends more OOPE in both rural and urban areas, whereas Gujarat spends less among states and Dadra and …

AMR, flu pandemic again top WHO’s list of health challenges for 2020

UN body also lists newer challenges related to adolescents, emerging technologies and food among others

World Health Day: Indian tale of unfulfilled goals

India short of five lakh doctors and the situation is worse than Vietnam

Inequalities in accessing sexual, reproductive healthcare persist: WHO study 

Rates of unintended pregnancies, abortions vary widely within the same region and geographies, it says

New WHO / ILO guide urges greater safeguards to protect health workers 

The joint publication encourages countries to strengthen the protection of health workers by improving the management of occupational health and …

World Health Day 2022: Here’s looking at health, food & India

Primary health care, community health workers bag spotlight at WHA

The member states decided to implement Declaration of Astana and allocate adequate resources to support community health workers

WHO stresses on universal health coverage at its 71st assembly

The six-day World Health Assembly kicked off in Geneva on Monday

WHO member states agree on $6.83 billion funding for 2 years; most ambitious yet

Historic 20% increase in assessed contributions after deliberations at 75th World Health Assembly

A cancer centre is the latest victim of cyber attacks. Why health data hacks keep happening

Nearly half of these ransomware attacks disrupted the health-care services, with impacts including electronic system downtime, cancellations of …

Mental illness in Africa: Go for community-centred approach, advise experts

Africa has very few psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, social workers working in mental health and psychiatric nurses

Behind the curve: How COVID-19 exposed India’s apathetic rural health infrastructure

It should not have taken a pandemic for the government to realise the importance of the rural healthcare infrastructure and of universal free …