By Dr Anita Mishra, Ritika Gupta
Experts believe that there will be a surge in cases of mental illness in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic due to lasting impact of physical distancing, quarantine and socio-economic factors. According to World Health Organization (WHO),every 40 seconds a person dies by suicide, and it is the second leading cause of deaths in the cohort of 15-29 year-olds. A paper by Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) showed thatin 2017, 197 million Indians were suffering from mental disorders of whom 46 million had depressive disorders and 45 million had anxiety disorders. The spread of the novel coronavirus has aggravated the situation. The disease was further declared as air borne, forcing people to limit their movement and physical contact, challenging the survival of humanity. Information through various mediums on the coronavirus is constantly developing fear, stress and anxiety making people often think, say or do what may not be considered ‘ap
The Covid-19 crisis has underlined the need for more budgetary allocation for healthcare
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Covid-19 showed the Indian healthcare system bursting at its seams at the height of the pandemic; patients turned away, doctors and nurses exhausted in their PPE kits.
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Governments the world over were forced to spend more on healthcare in the past year. This kind of allocation might have otherwise taken decades.
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Pandemics have a way of exposing glaring fault lines. When it comes to the healthcare system, it bares every rot in the system, every loose nail, every creaky rafter, every patient in need of aid and every healthcare worker who is overworked. Covid-19 showed the Indian healthcare system bursting at its seams at the height of the pandemic; patients turned away, doctors and nurses exhausted in their PPE kits.
Lack of access to contraceptives in 2020 is a pushback for Indiaâs population plans
Women are at the frontline of Indiaâs pandemic response, yet they suffered the most when it came to healthcare in 2020.
Poonam Muttreja 31 December, 2020 8:32 am IST Text Size:
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One of the underplayed success stories in India has been its steady and natural move towards population stabilisation. The Census data makes clear that the population growth rate has declined from 24.7 per cent in 1971-81 to 17.7 per cent in 2001-2011. This decline has been witnessed across regions and communities.
Although some data is yet to come in, the National Family Health Survey-5 shows that 19 of the 17 states and 5 Union Territories have managed to get their Total Fertility Rate (TFR) â the average number of children born per woman â to less than 2.1. This number 2.1 is critical because it is the level at which a population exa
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New Delhi: We have all heard the doomsday predictions about the implications of unchecked growth in Indiaâs population, and demands for a population-control law from politicians make the headlines every now and then.
But the fifth edition of the Union governmentâs National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5), released on 12 December, suggests the fears may be unfounded. According to data on fertility rates presented in the survey, Indiaâs population is stabilising.Â
A population is said to stabilise once it achieves what is known as replacement-level fertility â that is the total fertility rate at which a population exactly replaces itself from one generation to the next.Â