In news: 71st Session of the WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia was recently held. About Regional Committee for South-East Asia: The Regional Committee for South-East Asia is the World Health Organization’s governing body in the South-East Asia Region, with representatives from all 11 Member States of the Region. It meets in September every year to review... Continue Reading →
WHO has recognized gaming disorder as mental health condition 11th International Classification of Diseases (ICD), WHO has included gaming disorder in its list of mental health conditions. Symptoms of depression and anxiety, and somatisation, including behavioural changes and sleep disturbances. The WHO defines the disorder as a "persistent or recurrent" behavior pattern of "sufficient severity... Continue Reading →
Pollution related topics. In news: Scientists have found widespread uranium contamination in groundwater from aquifers across 16 states in India, much above the WHO provisional standard for the country. The main source of uranium contamination was “natural,” but human factors such as groundwater table decline and nitrate pollution could be worsening the problem. ... Continue Reading →
Wisdoms Editorial: Achieving universal health coverage in India Bacground: The World Health Organization (WHO) Health Assembly set the target of “Health for All” in May 1977. These were to be achieved by the end of 2000. Subsequently, in 2000, the Millennium Development Goals were formulated by the UN with the target for achievement set for 2015. This was followed... Continue Reading →
development and management of social sector / services related to governance, constitution, governance system, social justice and international relations In news: In the recent research paper on Jama Oncology, researchers from the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) have analyzed cases of new cancers in 195 countries in 2016. Incompatible analysis... Continue Reading →
Important fact: World Health Organisation highlight smokeless tobacco is the bigger scourge in the country India is on track to curb cigarette use, but chewable tobacco is a health emergency Problem of chewing tobacco in country not addressed, say experts 66% of the world‟s smokeless-tobacco users are in India, a sizeable chunk of this number... Continue Reading →
In news: The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Nepal for having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem – a milestone, as the country becomes the first in WHO’s South-East Asia Region to defeat the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness. Trachoma was the second leading cause of preventable blindness in Nepal in... Continue Reading →
In news: Plenary Meeting of the 71st World Health Assembly is being held at Geneva. In addition to its three main themes of celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Organization, the 40th Anniversary of Alma-Ata and WHO’s top priority, universal health coverage, it will cover many topics on health throughout the life-course including sexual and... Continue Reading →
In news: Kerala health department is on high alert in the wake of deaths due to the ‘Nipah’ virus (NiV). The government has set up a task force to monitor the cases and contain the spread of this fast spreading virus which has a reported mortality rate of 70%. What is Nipah Virus? According... Continue Reading →
In news: WHO has published its first Essential Diagnostics List, a catalogue of the tests needed to diagnose the most common conditions as well as a number of global priority diseases. The aim is to provide a tool that can be useful to all countries, to test and treat better, but also to use health... Continue Reading →
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