Will Covid-19 vaccination roll-out help Indian economy heal?
Women and children across the world including India remained the worst affected groups during the Covid-19 pandemic
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Health economists believe that India’s vaccination program may help in economic recovery with the situation of women and children expected to improve
According to operational guidelines for vaccination issued by the Union health ministry, the Covid-19 vaccine is being offered first to healthcare workers
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With International Labour Organization (ILO) projecting that economy of most countries will recover in the second half of 2021, depending on Covid-19 vaccination rollout, India may expect its wrecked economy to heal after kicking off its nationwide Covid-19 immunisation program that completed 10 days on Tuesday.
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Consumption pattern, not economic shock behind poor child health indicators By Neeraj Kumar, Arup Mitra. Dated: 12/31/2020 1:01:23 PM
The findings of the latest round of National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) conducted in 2019-20 covering 22 States/UTs under Phase-I present a somewhat disappointing picture of children’s health in India. Majority of the experts, based on prima facie evidence, just highlighted the deteriorating sign of child health in terms of increase in proportion of stunted and underweight children in most of the phase-I states/UTs over last two rounds of NFHS (2015-16 to 2019-20).
Several authors concluded that the poorer child health outcomes during last five years are either due to economic slowdown, deteriorating public health care systems, or due to adverse effects of poverty, unemployment and the economic shocks India experienced. However, a careful examination of NFHS-5 data shows considerable improvement in close to 100 of the 131 indicators associa