Health

Micronutrient deficiency is known to affect the health of over two billion people globally and is known to impact learning, IQ, motor skills, and immune system functions and has a lasting effect on children through adulthood.

Changes in Indian biodiversity regulations might allow for exploitation

A bill passed last week by India's Parliament, according to legal experts and environmental activists, may increase commercial exploitation of the nation's ecosystems and hurt the populations who depend on them.

Socio-economic changes like population pressure, industrialization, migration, and urbanisation have led to a significant increase in municipal solid waste in India. Solid waste generation is about 0.1 kg, 0.3–0.4 kg, and 0.5 kg per capita per day in small, medium, and large cities and towns in India, respectively (CPCB, 2005).

Delhi Research Implementation and Innovation (DRIIV), an S&T cluster of the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, successfully hosted a momentous conference on 'Role of Open Access in Equitable Climate and Health Action: Prevention, Response, and Financing' under the esteemed aegis of G20-CSAR.

The monsoon can drench besides forcing you to wade through flooded stagnant waters in cities or make you to start working happily in the rice fields in rural areas. Rainwater puddles in the fields or stagnant waters in cities are often mixed with water from animal and rodent waste, and sewage in urban areas. Do you know that this can cause diseases such as leptospirosis? 

A sizeable segment of the workforce in India relies on the informal sector as their main source of income. One such activity is waste management, which is carried out informally or is organised through associations and cooperatives.

The large volume of wastewater remains untreated due to inadequate wastewater treatment facilities and the struggle to regulate it in many countries in the world. But it is being reused as a source of irrigation in urban and peri-urban areas.

On October 25 2022, UNICEF released a report titled "The Coldest Year of the Rest of Their Lives: Protecting Children from Escalating Impacts of Heatwaves".

Poor access to adequate and good quality sanitation and hygiene facilities can give rise to a number of water borne diseases in populations.

Dengue is witnessing an alarming rise in India in recent years and the National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (2020) data shows a five fold increase in cases of dengue from 28,066 cases in 2010 to 157,315 cases in 2019.

Dengue and climate change