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The menace of food adulteration — and how to tackle it
April 24, 2025 11:52 am
The state must deal with the challenge, not put onus on citizens
Omission of disability-related questions from NFHS-6 shows that disability remains misunderstood
September 01, 2023 12:50 pm
The dropping of disability-related questions represents a failure to appreciate the various dimensions of disability and reflects the looming tendency to oversimplify disability and related issues
Shamika Ravi is wrong. It is unfair to blame survey methodology when results disagree with a view point
July 12, 2023 9:51 am
We must guard against use of surveys and studies whose methodologies are opaque, sample sizes too small or selection process too purposive, just because they support a particular view point
India’s hunger paradox: Self-sufficiency in production does not necessarily mean food security
May 03, 2023 4:37 pm
To achieve the goal of zero hunger, India should consider a strategic initiative led by the PMO aimed at eliminating food insecurity in India and ensuring affordable access, with a special and immediate focus on India’s youngest children
Healthcare in India has made great progress, but challenges remain
March 29, 2023 11:27 am
Rising obesity and lifestyle risk factors, huge variations in infrastructure across states and low health insurance penetration are among the problems that must be addressed
Increasing cases: Kerala to launch door-to-door campaign to reduce anaemia
February 14, 2023 7:37 pm
The Kerala government’s initiative will be rolled out in addition to the Centre’s Anaemia Mukt Bharat programme. The campaign will reach 1.3 crore women across the state in six months.
Why you should have 5-7 small servings of fruits & veggies daily to lose excess fat ?
September 16, 2022 6:27 am
A recent study by the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) reveals a more worrying trend and says around 5.02 million people died prematurely in 2019 due to obesity, nearly six times the number of people that died from more serious diseases like HIV/AIDS. There is no denying the fact that when it comes to obesity, ‘the clock is ticking,’ says Dr Dr Suranjit Chatterjee, Senior Consultant, Internal Medicine, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi
India’s great anaemia mystery
September 14, 2022 8:34 am
Soumya Gupta and Payal Seth write: Increase in haemoglobin deficiency in NFHS-5 despite progress on other nutritional and health indicators is a matter of concern
NFHS 2019-2021: In Punjab’s hinterland, 3 males in every 10 anaemic; 2 in urban areas
August 19, 2022 3:10 am
In a presentation on the second day of a symposium organised at the PAU, Bains informed that the NFHS data presented a sorry figure of Punjab as far as prevalence of anaemia is concerned.
Efforts to estimate poverty from 2011-21 are commendable, given absence of data
June 30, 2022 8:38 am
Amitabh Kundu writes: Intending to provide inputs for policy making, researchers have evolved ingenious methods of estimating the data, using past datasets and those that have not been designed to get robust expenditure estimates
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