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It wasn’t too long ago, when an icy fear held our nation in its grip, with the epidemic attack of chikungunya, in the south of India. From February to October 2006, the WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia had reported that 151 districts in 8 states of India were affected by chikungunya fever. The states [...]
Family planning is a way of thinking and living adopted voluntarily on the basis of knowledge, attitudes and responsible decisions by individuals and couples so as to promote the health and welfare of the family, and thus, contribute effectively to the social development of a country. Family planning refers to practices that help individuals [...]
Body Mass Index is a measure of the body weight related to height that is associated with body fat and health risk. It was developed in the mid 1800’s by a Belgian mathematician named Adolphe Quetelet. It is equal to the weight, divided by the square of the height. The equation is: BMI = [...]
“A physician who fails to enter the body of a patient with the lamp of knowledge and understanding can never treat diseases. He should first study all the factors, including environment, which influence a patient’s disease, and then prescribe treatment. It is more important to prevent the occurrence of disease than to seek a [...]
Tobacco health warnings are messages that appear on the packaging of cigarettes and other tobacco products. These warnings, which include pictorial warnings, cut across linguistic and cultural barriers, and are printed with the intention of increasing public awareness on the harmful health effects of tobacco consumption. Pictorial messages also help to discourage tobacco consumption. Here [...]
Next to China, India is the second largest populated country in the world. In 2001, India became the second country after China to cross the one billion mark. The current population is around 1.15 billion. India occupies only 2.4% of the world’s land area but it supports over 15% of the world’s population. About 70% [...]
What is Environmental Sanitation? The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines ‘Environmental Sanitation’ as “the control of all those factors in man’s physical environment which exercise or may exercise a deleterious effect on his physical development, health and survival.” Environmental sanitation/hygiene includes all the activities aimed at improving or maintaining the standard of basic environmental conditions [...]
One can meet with disaster at anytime in life. Be it a natural or man-made disaster, the effect leaves you and your family members shaken. Being a developing country with a huge population, India is vulnerable to various natural disasters like floods, cyclones, earthquakes, landslides and droughts. Adding to these catastrophes are man-made disasters (riots [...]
While most clinical trial failures are attributed to a delay in recruiting patients on time, extending clinical trials to newer geographies is the only solution to reduce research costs and decrease drug development time. Hence, both multinational and Indian pharmaceutical companies have been strengthening their clinical research departments while international contract research organizations (CROs) have [...]
Revenues from the healthcare sector account for 5.2% of the GDP, making it the third largest growth sector in India. Valued at 34 billion US dollars, the Indian healthcare sector is projected to grow to nearly 40 billion US dollars by 2012. Over 150 million Indians have annual incomes of more than 1,000 US dollars, [...]
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