Health

Future Food: India - 'Fat or Skinny?'

In India Tulika Verma is on a mission to ban junk food from Delhi’s schools – where over one in six schoolchildren are overweight. Western-style diets and processed food are becoming ever more popular in India’s cities, while traditional, healthy, sustainable foods are being forgotten. India’s on the edge of two possible futures: a future that’s well fed and healthy; or a future of ‘Western-style’ diets and a public health epidemic of obesity.

Note: A series of 6 x 25-min films exploring key questions around global food security

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Agriculture, Junk Food, Health Effects, Nutrition, India, Child Health, Traditional Knowledge, Delhi, High Court, Malnutrition, Nutritional Diseases, Developing Countries, Health Policy, Fast Foods
Health
Ministry of Health And Family Welfare
Health, Health Care, Health Policy, Medical Systems, Delhi
Health

 Infection threat from clean hospitals too

even clean hospitals can pass on infections to patients. Health experts around the world are trying to find ways to reduce hospital acquired infections (hais). Despite all the efforts to tackle

Publication Date: 
14/01/2008
Vibha Varshney
Down to Earth
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Health Effects, Health, Health Care, Health Policy, Health Personnel, Infectious Diseases, Ireland, India
Health

 National Family Health Survey out

The final report of the third National Family Health Survey (nfhs-3) is out, but doubts remain whether it will be used to improve national health policies. Although 100-odd research papers have

Publication Date: 
14/11/2007
Vibha Varshney
Down to Earth
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Malnutrition, Infant mortality, Health, Maternal Health, Health Care, Health Policy, Immunisation, Vaccination, Child Health, AIDS, Nutritional Diseases, Anaemia, Obesity, India
India

 Review of the film, <i>Sicko</i>

>> Sicko, Produced and directed by Michael Moore, 125 minutes, USA Michael Moore has penchant for turning polemics into cinema. And good cinema at that. His first film, Roger and

Publication Date: 
14/08/2007
Vibha Varshney
Down to Earth
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Canada, Health Care, Health Policy, Finance, Poverty, Private Sector, Cinema, France, United Kingdom (UK), Cuba, United States Of America (US), India
Health

 Salt of the earth

Bombay HC stays Centre s notification on iodised salt

Publication Date: 
29/06/2006
Nidhi Jamwal
Down to Earth
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Nutrition, Salt, Health, Health Policy, Nutritional Diseases, Goitre, Legislation, High Court, Government Of India (GOI), Maharashtra, Mumbai
India

 Old wives tale

The US pollution laws surpass all limits of hypocrisy

Publication Date: 
29/06/2003
Down to Earth
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Pollution, Pollution Control, Health Policy, Legislation, United States Of America (US)
Sanitation

 The buzz on Malaria

Integrating cost effective traditional methods is essential to fighting the killer disease

Publication Date: 
29/11/2002
Down to Earth
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Malaria, Sanitation, Health Care, Health Policy, Preventive Medicine, Medical Research, Vaccination
Poverty

 Unhealthy policy

A new policy fails to address key problems of healthcare

Publication Date: 
29/09/2001
Down to Earth
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Health Care, Health Policy, Drugs, Poverty, Legislation, Governance, Government Of India (GOI), NGO
Transport

 In AID S of the dying

To tackle the killer disease ravaging South Africa, the government s health policy will have to undergo a drastic change

Publication Date: 
29/06/2000
Down to Earth
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Sanitation, Health Policy, Medical Research, Drugs, AIDS, Education, South Africa

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