Digital Media promotion of Breast Milk Substitutes and its impact on Breastfeeding practices
Increased use of Digital Media Marketing on Breastmilk Substitutes
Neeti Goutam
She has journeyed from studying Philosophy and Demography to understanding and identifying team's strengths and weaknesses which more effectively channel their work on various multimedia platforms.
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Nutrition
BACKGROUND Nutrition is central to the achievement of other National and Global Sustainable Development Goals. Food has a direct relation to maternal and child health. Poor nutrition among children is directly related to inadequate or unbalanced diet, leading to chronic illness (The Burden of Disease in India, WHO, 2005). The...
Health Financing
BACKGROUND As defined by the WHO, health financing refers to the “function of a health system concerned with the mobilisation, accumulation and allocation of money to cover the health needs of the people, individually and collectively, in the health system”. TABLE 1. Health expenditures in Indian healthcare Year The population...
Health System & Coverage
This discussion note is on health system and coverage.
Health Manpower & Development
BACKGROUND Human resource for health services has been described as the "heart of the health system in a country" (National Health Policy, 2018). Human resources or health workers means all those responsible for providing the essential services of public health directly or indirectly regardless of the organization in which they...
Mental Health and Well-Being
Background: According to the World Health Organization, "there is no health without mental health" underlines mental health is an integral and essential component of health. Indeed, mental health can be defined as a state of well-being enabling individuals to realize their abilities, cope with the everyday stresses of life, work...