Tag: Health
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of India’s National Disability...
The Draft National Disability Policy outlines goals to ensure a dignified life for PwDs from birth through life. How can data collection and infrastructural changes proposed by the Policy assist PwDs?
Getting Pregnant is Harder Than It’s Made Out To Be
How easy is it to get pregnant? Rising infertility in India is leading to more couples seeking out reproductive experts.
Why Access to Nutritious Food is A Right, Not Charity
Malnutrition has been one India's biggest and most difficult challenges to beat. Despite decades of investment, the latest National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5, 2019-2021)...
Sports and Fitness Services in India Need to Account for the...
One of the many things that coronavirus-induced lockdowns have shown us is the value of personal health and fitness. To the privileged few who...
Making Light of Numbers: Indian Paralympic Athletes Defying Age
Having the right support system and entourage can take Indian athletes to world-beating levels.
Responding to COVID-19: Here’s How India’s Sex Workers Are Doing It
India's sex workers have been mobilising their community to address the impact of COVID-19 on their livelihoods and families. Here's how.
ASHA Workers and the Burden of Unpaid Care Work
Health workers such as Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA), among others, have been part of the National Health Mission (NHM) since 2005. An ASHA...
Femtech Says It’s Empowering Women, but Is It Commodifying Them Too?
The concept of ‘Femtech’—or technology “which addresses women's biological needs”—is so interlinked with the women’s health apps, that the term itself is credited to...
Dialling 102: How Can We (Re)Design Healthcare in India
Kiran Karnik — Former President, NASSCOM and Founder & Former Director, ISRO’s Development and Educational Communication Unit — speaks about reforming and redesigning India’s healthcare sector, in conversation with Sourya Reddy.
What Does it Take to Build a Sustainable Digital Health System?
This article is the second instalment of a two-part series on the National Digital Health Mission. We look at the best practices required to...
