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Monthly Archives: March 2015. March 21, 2015. Changing facets of vocational education. Vocational education needs to keep pace with the changing trends and requirements of the industry. Outdated training methods and skills will not help our economy, writes Sachin Adhikari. India is at a threshold, where skilling is the only way it can utilise its huge youth entering the workforce. Vocational training can help bridge employability gap on one hand, while providing effective employment on the other....With ...
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Study Says Pregnant Women in India Are Gravely Underweight |
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March 8, 2015. Study Says Pregnant Women in India Are Gravely Underweight. Her first child survived eight months before succumbing to pneumonia; her second was stillborn; her third, delivered in a rickshaw, gasped for an hour before dying. When she got pregnant for a fourth time, Juhi, a woman from a South Delhi slum who uses only one name, was spotted by a local health worker and taken to a mobile clinic. A doctor diagnosed severe anemia, gave her iron pills and begged her to eat more. By analyzing cens...
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Team forms ‘Sanmati’ to create awareness on mental health |
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March 21, 2015. Team forms ‘Sanmati’ to create awareness on mental health. Today, in India, there is an increasing awareness about physical health and the need to prevent illness. However, the situation is different when it comes to mental health issues. To promote awareness about mental health and also pay tribute to their teacher, a few leading psychiatrists in the city have got together to launch Sanmati Dr V Ramachandran Medical and Mental Health Foundation. Scholars take a rights-based approach to t...
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India’s health programs dented |
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March 8, 2015. India’s health programs dented. India’s main public health programs, aimed at millions of rural poor, have been in disarray for months because the government changed the way that over $1.3 billion in federal funds were distributed, according to data and letters seen by Reuters. In a bid last year to give India’s states more power, the federal health ministry started sending funds for public health programs to state treasuries, instead of direct transfers to its regional arms. The decision ...
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14 | March | 2015 |
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Daily Archives: March 14, 2015. March 14, 2015. Innovation and action in funding girls’ education. Education is associated with increased contraception use; less underage premarital sex; lower HIV/AIDS risks; and reduced child marriage, early births, and fertility rates. Educating girls also yields intergenerational benefits because the children of educated mothers tend to be healthier and better-educated themselves. The social and economic benefits of education also illustrate the clear business case fo...
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India has 19 health workers for every 10,000 people |
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March 14, 2015. India has 19 health workers for every 10,000 people. India has 19 health workers which includes doctors and nurses for every 10,000 people in comparison to World Health Organisation (WHO) norms which prescribe 25 health workers for the same number, the Lok Sabha was informed on Friday. As per the Report of the Steering Committee on Health for the 12th Five Year Plan of the Planning Commission, India has 19 health workers (doctors 6, nurses and midwives 13) per 10,000 people in India.
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08 | March | 2015 |
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Daily Archives: March 8, 2015. March 8, 2015. Stigma of mental illness in India linked to poverty. The stigma surrounding people with severe mental illness in India leads to increased poverty among them, especially women, according to new research led by Jean-Francois Trani, PhD, assistant professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. Department of a hospital in New Delhi from 2011-12, conducting interviews during hospital visits and at homes. Stigma associated with mental illness.
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Education |
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March 21, 2015. Changing facets of vocational education. Vocational education needs to keep pace with the changing trends and requirements of the industry. Outdated training methods and skills will not help our economy, writes Sachin Adhikari. India is at a threshold, where skilling is the only way it can utilise its huge youth entering the workforce. Vocational training can help bridge employability gap on one hand, while providing effective employment on the other. However, it is most crucial t...With ...
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21 | March | 2015 |
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Daily Archives: March 21, 2015. March 21, 2015. Changing facets of vocational education. Vocational education needs to keep pace with the changing trends and requirements of the industry. Outdated training methods and skills will not help our economy, writes Sachin Adhikari. India is at a threshold, where skilling is the only way it can utilise its huge youth entering the workforce. Vocational training can help bridge employability gap on one hand, while providing effective employment on the other...
