Srimoyee Biswas Keeping in line with the mission of ‘TB Mukt Bharat’ and ending the TB epidemic by 2025, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoFWM) and Ministry of Tribal Affairs of Government of India have come together to…
Urvashi Prasad , Adhiraj Parthasarathy Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, and Jharkhand continue to have TFRs that are significantly above replacement levels. While the Census, which has a wide coverage, is generally regarded as the official marker of demographic trends in the…
Gurinder Kaur The second phase of data collected by National Family Health Survey-5 (2019—21) was released on November 24, 2021. The survey was conducted in two phases due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The National Family Health Survey — 5 was…
IMPRI Team The census data has proven to be useful for not only administrative purposes but also for development research over the years, especially in the health sector. There has been an evolution in collecting health data in India over…
Gurinder Kaur Two studies released on September 1, 2021 on the damage to human health due to increasing air pollution in India have revealed very worrying facts. One study is conducted by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of…
Krishna Raj The interrelationship between climate change, public health, and Covid-19 is well established. Especially, the Economic Cost of Climate change is pervasive and increasingly observed in Public health in the recent Covid-19 pandemic. This begs a very genuine question…
Arjun Kumar, Ritika Gupta, Kashish Babbar, Chhavi Kapoor, Rohit Mehta On 16 January 2021, India launched the largest vaccination drive under the vision of Honorable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi. Technology has played a crucial role in bringing the idea…