World Hearing Day & all about hearing loss
By Dr. Rupali Patil / March 3, 2021
World Hearing Day is held on 3rd March every year to raise awareness on how to prevent deafness and promote...
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Global health diplomacy, Human Security & Regional Co-operation
By Dr Edmond Fernandes / February 26, 2021
Right from Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilization we have arrived at the Clash of Crisis for our generation. This crisis...
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Adaptation gap 2020 and the issues of climate change-disaster-health nexus
By Dr Edmond Fernandes / February 25, 2021
The adaptation gap report 2020 presents glaring findings related to how far nations have come with regard to achieving and...
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Food insecurity rising with climate change – Generational crisis unfolding
By Dr Edmond Fernandes and Delma Coelho
/ November 22, 2020
Climate change has triggered a crisis of a generation which also struggles with natural disasters, public health challenges and also...
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COVID-19, Tuberculosis and the agenda to eliminate: Re-starting a focused elimination program for India
By Dr. Richa Garg
/ October 31, 2020
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most ancient diseases of mankind and one of the ten major causes of mortality...
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Representation of the warning signs of the abusive behaviour: A threat for the global health
By Dr. Syeda Zerin Imam
/ October 22, 2020
Nowadays, the term ‘abuse’ more specifically ‘individual’s abusive behaviour’ has become a burning question in the society. Very frequently people...
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The Need to Promote Translational Public Health through public health proficient NGOs
By Gautam Satheesh and Dr Edmond Fernandes
/ October 16, 2020
Developing countries with weaker health systems find it challenging to provide equitable, affordable and optimal healthcare to its population due...
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The Disaster And Health Nexus Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: How Governments can protect vulnerable communities
By Dr. Sanjay Srivastava, Dr. Madhurima Sarkar and Dr Edmond Fernandes
/ October 5, 2020
Asif Ali (name changed) and his wife live with three children in a rural township bordering India and Bangladesh. Asif...
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Mainstreaming social protection amidst cascading risks
By Dr Edmond Fernandes and Delma Coelho
/ September 22, 2020
One of the starkest stories of our era belongs to the year 2020 where the novel coronavirus has disrupted normalcy,...
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South Africa’s National Development Plan 2030 will need to put cascading risk at the heart of development
By Dr Edmond Fernandes
/ August 30, 2020
Droughts in the Western Cape and wildfires along with changing vector bionomics is evidently visible in the South African region....
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Addressing policy gaps for diarrhoeal diseases in Bangladesh
By Dr. Syeda Zerin Imam
/ August 19, 2020
At present, the world is facing the biggest challenge of the century. Amid these unquiet and restless situations, one after...
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Mentally ill, not mentally still: Based on a true story
By Dr. Keerthana Thatavarthi
/ August 13, 2020
Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, defined in the best of world’s more so ideally....
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Community securitizing medical research and development
By Dr. Syed Muntasir Mamun
/ August 8, 2020
Public health delivery is a public good. But it is often an overlooked and underappreciated area in the greater part...
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Achieving sustainability for regional co-operation in the Asia and Pacific
By Dr Edmond Fernandes
/ August 4, 2020
In a few decades from now when historians attempt to revisit the time of 2020, they will refer to our...
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Why the public health focus in North East India remains necessary
By Fellicita Pohsnem
/ July 30, 2020
Health is a component which is essential and is the right of every individual and the entitlement to it includes...
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Latest coronavirus vaccine update
By CHD Group
/ July 25, 2020
Coronaviruses have arisen again after a series of viral epidemic attacks by the members of coronaviridae family, namely by the...
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Long term consequences of Covid-19 & Obesity
By Dr. Darshita Singh
/ July 22, 2020
As the world comes to halt, covid-19 is spreading across length and breadth. Till now, we all have gotten used...
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Legal Age for Marriage in India: a case for social health outcomes
By Dr. Vidisha Vallabh
/ July 17, 2020
Union budget 2020-21 was dissected thoroughly by academicians, economists, health care professionals and common man for tax proposals, education and...
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With community transmission brewing, imposing lockdown reflects administrative failure
By CHD Group
/ July 14, 2020
Irrespective of whether the Indian Council of Medical Research accepts community transmission or they deny it at the behest of...
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Mental Health Disorders
By Abhishek Ganesan
/ June 12, 2020
INTRODUCTION: Mental health is more than the mere lack of mental disorders. The optimistic dimension of mental health is clearly...
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Mortality of Outbreaks: Who is dying, not how many are dying!
By Gautam Satheesh
/ June 9, 2020
Nothing routs us but the villainy of our fears. - William Shakespeare Fear of death creates more panic than death...
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Teenage pregnancy and India’s woes
By Abhishek Ganesan
/ May 30, 2020
World Health Organization defines Teenage Pregnancy as “any pregnancy from a girl who is 10-19 years of age”. This is...
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Telemedicine as an effective strategy for India?
By Dr. Pankaj Gupta
/ May 29, 2020
According to the economic survey of India 2019-2020, the doctor patient ratio in India is 1:1456 with respect to the...
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