Health

Rs.2000 m to combat cancers, kidney disease

Around Rs.2000 million has been granted to the Health Ministry in the 2014 budget allocations to control the alarming spread of various forms of cancers and chronic kidney disease.

Publication Date: 
13/01/2014
The Island (Sri Lanka)
Tags:
Health, Sri Lanka, Cancer, Smoking, Non Communicable Diseases, South Asia, Diseases
Health

Averting obesity and type 2 diabetes in India through sugar-sweetened beverage taxation: An economic-epidemiologic modeling study

Taxing sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) has been proposed in high-income countries to reduce obesity and type 2 diabetes. We sought to estimate the potential health effects of such a fiscal strategy in the middle-income country of India, where there is heterogeneity in SSB consumption, patterns of substitution between SSBs and other beverages after tax increases, and vast differences in chronic disease risk within the population.

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Publication Date: 
07/01/2014
Tony Blakely, Nick Wilson, Bill Kaye-Blake
PLoS Medicine
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Tags:
Soft Drinks, Health Effects, Non Communicable Diseases, Diabetes, India, Consumption Patterns
Health

Taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages to curb future obesity and diabetes epidemics

Is it time for countries to consider taxing SSBs or raising existing taxes? This is the topic of the paper by Sanjay Basu and colleagues in this week's PLOS Medicine, in which they model the potential impact of a SSB tax for India. Assuming that sales of SSBs continue their non-linear increase, Basu and colleagues estimate that a 20% SSB tax may avert 4.2% of prevalent overweight and obesity, and reduce diabetes incidence by 2.5%, from 2014 to 2023.

Publication Date: 
07/01/2014
Tony Blakely, Nick Wilson, Bill Kaye-Blake
PLoS Medicine
Tags:
Soft Drinks, Obesity, Diabetes, Health Effects, Soft Drinks Industry, Non Communicable Diseases, India, Epidemiological Studies
Health

Cancers more than double in the country in two decades

National Cancer Control Programme Director Dr. Mrs. Dr. Neelamani Paranagama yesterday revealed that the number of cancer patients in Sri Lanka had more than doubled in the last two decades.

Publication Date: 
06/01/2014
The Island (Sri Lanka)
Tags:
Sri Lanka, Cancer, Health, Non Communicable Diseases, South Asia
Health

Global atlas of palliative care at the end of life

Only 1 in 10 people who need palliative care - that is medical care to relieve the pain, symptoms and stress of serious illness - is currently receiving it. This unmet need is mapped for the first time in the "Global atlas of palliative care at the end of life", published jointly by the WHO and the Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance (WPCA).

Publication Date: 
01/01/2014
Stephen R. Connor, Maria Cecilia Sepulveda Bermedo
Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance
Tags:
Health Care, Health, India, Global, Cancer, Tuberculosis, Children, Human Rights, Diseases, Non Communicable Diseases, WHO
Health

Obesity on the rise in Pakistan

Obesity is an emerging challenge and a serious health problem worldwide; it is associated with many chronic diseases, such as diabetes, cardiovascular disorders and certain cancers.

Publication Date: 
12/12/2013
Daily Times (Pakistan)
Tags:
Pakistan, Obesity, Health, Non Communicable Diseases, South Asia
Health

Should physical activity recommendations be ethnicity-specific? Evidence from a cross-sectional study of South Asian and European men

Expert bodies and health organisations recommend that adults undertake at least 150 min.week of moderate-intensity physical activity (MPA). However, the underpinning data largely emanate from studies of populations of

Publication Date: 
01/12/2013
Carlos A. Celis-Morales, Nazim Ghouri, Mark E. S. Bailey & et al
PLoS ONE
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1-7
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Lifestyles, Health Effects, South Asia, Europe, Heart Diseases, Diabetes, Non Communicable Diseases
Health

Bangladesh makes "exceptional" health progress despite poverty

Bangladesh has had 40 years of exceptional progress in health, with infant mortality down, life expectancy up and good disease control, all despite being one of the world's poorest countries, resea

Publication Date: 
21/11/2013
Reuters
Tags:
Bangladesh, Health, Poverty, Child Health, Infant mortality, South Asia, Maternal Health, India, Tuberculosis, Infectious Diseases, Malnutrition, Non Communicable Diseases
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7.1m people diabetic

Around 10 per cent of Pakistan’s adult population is diabetic and the country could become the world’s fourth largest diabetic nation according to international estimates, experts said at a press c

Publication Date: 
20/11/2013
Dawn (Pakistan)
Tags:
Pakistan, Health, Diabetes, Non Communicable Diseases, Diseases, South Asia
Health

One fourth of Lanka are diabetics

Latest statistics reveal that 25% of the population in Sri Lanka is suffering from Diabetes and the figure is estimated to be doubled by 2050, the Health Ministry said yesterday.

Publication Date: 
15/11/2013
Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)
Tags:
Sri Lanka, Health, Diabetes, Non Communicable Diseases, South Asia

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