Troubled partnerships in healthcare sector

Markets and partnerships can be effective only when there are strong and enforceable regulations, meaningful competition, and an informed consumer base. These are rare in rural India. With less than one per cent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) invested in public healthcare provision, India is currently one of the world's most privatised health economies. It is a country which is home to one-fifth of the world's diseases, where the regular level of malnourished children is higher than that of sub-Saharan Africa, and with higher rates of anaemia and maternal under-nourishment. The buzzwords inscribed into current government policy, includi ng the Eleventh Five Year Plan, are Public Private Partnerships (PPPs)

Publication Date: 
03/03/2008
Hindu
Tags:
Malnutrition, Health Care, Rural Health, India
Health

Childhood undernutrition: A comparative analysis of Scheduled Tribes and others in mid Indian tribal region

A high level of child undernutrition in India is well recognized. But one of the disturbing aspects of the nutrition situation in India is that there are substantial differences in level of child undernutrition across social groups, with Scheduled Tribes particularly disadvantaged. In this context, the paper aims to explore the level of child undernutrition among Scheduled Tribes, compared with Scheduled Castes, other backward classes and 'other' castes in the six states in the mid-India tribal belt inhabited by a substantial proportion of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.

Publication Date: 
01/03/2008
Sibabrata Das
Social Change
38
1
64
Tags:
Malnutrition, Scheduled Castes, Tribals, Child Health, Poverty, India, Bihar, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa (Odisha), West Bengal, Statistics
Poverty

Reducing poverty and hunger in Asia: the role of agricultural and rural development

After 30 years of dynamic growth and substantial poverty reduction in Asia, do agriculture and rural development still have a role to play in that region?

Publication Date: 
01/03/2008
Nurul Islam
International Food Policy Research Institute
Tags:
Agriculture, Malnutrition, Rural Development, Economic Development, Poverty, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Asia, India

Malnutrition among women migrants

Change in their eating habits deprives women of vital nutrients. A cup of coffee sweetened by jaggery relaxes Muniyammma. With renewed energy she goes back to the field to help transport the just-harvested bundles of ragi from Kaggalipura to the threshing mills. Some 40km away, in Bangalore, Muniyamma's sister Jyothi sips a cup of coffee bought at Rs 3 from a roadside vendor. Sweetened with white sugar, the coffee allows her to take a break from carrying stones on a construction site. Because jaggery has been replaced with refined sugar, Jyothi has unknowingly deprived herself of its rich nutrients. While a kilogram of jaggery has 28 grams of mineral salts

Publication Date: 
26/02/2008
Deccan Herald
Tags:
Malnutrition, Women, Karnataka
Health

Age-based preventive targeting of food assistance and behaviour change & communication for reduction of childhood undernutrition

Food-assisted maternal and child health and nutrition programmes usually target underweight children younger than 5 years of age. Previous evidence suggests that targeting nutrition interventions earlier in life, before children become undernourished, might be more effective for reduction of childhood undernutrition.

Publication Date: 
16/02/2008
Marie T Ruel, Purnima Menon, Jean-Pierre Habicht
Lancet
371
9612
588
Tags:
Food Supply, Malnutrition, Maternal Health, Health Care, Medical Research, Child Health, Nutritional Diseases, Haiti, Food Security
Food Policy

The millennium ecosystem assessment

This paper provides an overview of selected trends and conditions of ecosystem services, in particular, food production and impacts on the environment based on the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. It then describes outcomes for future ecosystem services under alternative development pathways, with a focus on tradeoffs between food security and the environment, such as implications for fertilizer use, and the role of biofuels.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2008
Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry
32
3
147
Tags:
Ecosystem Services, Land Use, Food Prices, Food Supply, Malnutrition, Trade, Biofuel, Child Health, Africa, Asia, Statistics, Food Security
Health

Accelerating progress toward reducing child malnutrition in India: a concept for action

India is home to 40 percent of the world

Publication Date: 
01/01/2008
Joachim von Braun, Ashok Gulati, Marie Ruel
International Food Policy Research Institute
Tags:
Nutrition, Malnutrition, Health, Children, Poverty, India
Climate Change

Impact of climate change and bioenergy on nutrition

The paper begins by laying out the current state of global food insecurity and malnutrition, including magnitude, trends and future projections. The causes, consequences and costs of food insecurity and malnutrition are explored. Malnutrition is clearly a severe impediment to sustainable development and human security as it slows down economic growth and the achievement of equity. The paper briefly lays out a number of factors besides climate change, bioenergy and rising prices that will likely contribute to malnutrition in the future.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2008
Marc J. Cohen, Cristina Tirado, Noora-Lisa Aberman & et al
International Food Policy Research Institute
Tags:
Nutrition, Malnutrition, Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Climate Mitigation, Biofuel, Developing Countries, Food Security
Climate Change

Impact of climate change and bioenergy on nutrition

This paper begins by laying out the current state of global food insecurity and malnutrition, including magnitude, trends and future projections. It then explores the implications of climate change and rising bioenergy demand for nutrition. It also examines the direct nutrition effects of rising bioenergy demand, as well as its contribution to rising food prices. A chapter on policy implications provides a number of options for improving food security and nutrition, as well as for addressing the links between climate change and bioenergy demand on the one hand and nutrition on the other.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2008
Marc J. Cohen, Cristina Tirado, Noora-Lisa Aberman & et al
International Food Policy Research Institute
Tags:
Nutrition, Malnutrition, Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Biofuel, Global, Food Security
Health

Safer water, better health : costs, benefits and sustainability of interventions to protect and promote health

This document summarizes the most recent water-related findings on global health impacts; presents recent information on effective interventions; summarizes information from economic evaluations; and describes recent insights on financing. The global health impacts presented are based on both rigorous assessments (for diarrhoea, trachoma, schistosomiasis and intestinal nematode infections) and reviews of expert opinion (all other addressed diseases).

Publication Date: 
31/12/2007
Annette Prss-stn, Robert Bos, Fiona Gore & et al
WHO
Tags:
Cost Benefit Analysis, Malnutrition, Water Resources, Health Effects, Diarrhoea, Malaria, Water Supply, Sanitation, Schistosomiasis, Filariasis, Drinking Water

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