A significant new research conducted to measure the progress of India and its states towards the realisation of Millennium Development Goal (MDG) pertaining to child mortality has shown the country
As the performance of small states differs across various economic parameters, carving out a small state does not assure strong growth performance reveals this analysis of the growth performance of states by India Ratings & Research.
All major health indicators in the country’s worst-performing States are showing a gradual improvement over the years but inter-State variations persist, according to the second update on the Annual Health Survey (AHS) released here on Thursday.
The survey points out that the rural-urban divide is highest in Assam for infant mortality rate
Even as infant and maternal mortality rates dropped significantly in nine states, which account for half the country’s population, the disparity between these rates in urban and rural areas as well as between different states hasn’t decreased, according to the Annual Health Survey (2012-13) released by the Office of Registrar General & Census Commissioner.
The health care delivery system of Maldives is organized into a four-tier referral system with the island level health facilities referring patients to higher level health facilities in the atolls, regions and to central level depending upon the need and service availability.
The US Agency for International Development today presented the USAID pioneers prize to the government of Nepal for bringing down neonatal mortality rate significantly.
The latest findings in a report have raised serious concerns regarding the government’s seriousness to combat high death ratio among the newborns who die at the time of their birth or within 24 hou
