Page 7 - Public Health

Limited expertise may hurt India's ability to contain coronavirus outbreak

Containing pandemics requires a multi-pronged approach: from mathematical analysis to the ability to rapidly develop drugs and vaccines.

J-K govt to set up NCDC for boosting lab diagnosis of emerging diseases

NCDC has the capacity and capability for disease surveillance, outbreak investigations, and rapid response to contain and combat outbreaks

The teacher from Dombautiya

Tudu's efforts have had quite an impact on her village. She's been able to convince three dropouts to return to school

There is a direct fiscal impetus to do more on 'Common goods for health'

Doing better on CGH is the essence of the Indian health policy challenge today

India to increase public health spending to 2.5% of GDP by 2025: PM

As of now, the country spends 1.15% of the GDP on health

Govt on track to meet goal of spending 2.5% of GDP on public health by 2025

Under the govt of PM Narendra Modi, public-health spending by the union health ministry rose 9.4 per cent in 2015-16, 16.5 per cent in 2016-17 and 36.3 per cent in 2017-18 in nominal terms

Public health needs a public revolution

People need to play a larger role for public health care schemes to bear fruit

Seven tactics unhealthy industries use to undermine public health policies

South Africa tried introducing tax on sugary drinks to reduce the growing burden of obesity

Coca-Cola, PepsiCo give millions to public health, then lobby against it

Beverage giants Coca-Cola and PepsiCo have given millions of dollars to nearly 100 prominent health groups in recent years, while simultaneously spending millions to defeat public health legislation that would reduce Americans' soda intake, according to public health researchers.The findings, published on Monday in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, document the beverage industry's deep financial ties to the health community over the past five years, as part of a strategy to silence health critics and gain unlikely allies against soda regulations.The study's authors, Michael Siegel, a professor at the Boston University school of public health, and Daniel Aaron, a student at Boston University's medical school, scoured public records including news releases, newspaper databases, lobbying reports, the medical literature and information released by the beverage giants themselves. While some of the incidents cited in the study already have been reported by news organizations, the