Health

Droughts reduced India’s gross domestic product by 2-5 per cent over 20 years from 1998-2017: Report

Poor consequences of unsafe drinking water and not following WASH behaviours are well documented. According to the World Health Organisation 1.7 billion cases of childhood diarrhoea occur globally every year.

With climate change emerging as the single biggest threat facing humanity and nearly 13 million lives lost every year due to avoidable environmental causes, the World Health Organization is calling for prioritizing equitable health and accelerating steps to protect ecological systems and health to build wellbeing societies.

While food systems globally are struggling to meet the nutritional needs of the growing populations, these have put a strain on land, water, soil, resources leading to a renewed interest in sustainable food systems. These, derived from sustainable cultures and ecosystems are often known to be accessible, affordable, safe,  healthy and promote environmental stability.

As India struggles to tackle malnutrition among women and children in the country as the NFHS data reveals, it is increasingly becoming clear that agrobiodiversity has an important role to play in ensuring sustainable and diverse diets and enhance health and nutrition, and may help m

Arsenic, a commonly found element in nature is often referred to as a toxic substance and ranks number one in the 2001 priority list of hazardous substances and disease registry defined by WHO.

Country’s water contaminated with lead, arsenic, fluoride: Centre

About the webinar:

The National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee has organized a webinar on 'Water for Public Health (W4PH): Preparing for Disasters and Pandemic'. The webinar featured 33 speakers from India and abroad bringing their insights into distinguished themes.  

Webinar themes:

The Western Ghats region of South India is one of the world's most important biodiversity hotspots, and the rainforests of this region are known to harbour 500 types of bird species, 225 reptile species, 219 amphibian species, and 133 mammal species.

Two studies released on September 1, 2021, on the damage to human health due to increasing air pollution in India have revealed very worrying facts.