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PM Modi Inaugurates First Health Centre Under Ayushman Bharat Scheme
Under the Ayushman Bharat Scheme, the government will open 1.5 lakh health and wellness centre by 2022, which will be equipped to treat host of diseases, including blood pressure, diabetes, cancer and old-age illness
50% hike in cigarette prices would add 450 mn years of life across 13 nations: study
“Higher excise taxes support the targets of the sustainable development goals on non-communicable diseases and poverty, and provides financial protection against illness,” according to the study.
PM Modi aims to increase healthcare share in GDP to 2.5 pc: Rajnath Singh
“we want to encourage investment in the preventive and promotive (healthcare) sector. We see the private sector as strategic partners in our endeavour to provide universal healthcare,” the minister said.
Modi to launch first health and wellness centre in Chhattisgarh
The Ayushman Bharat has twin missions. First, creating a network of Health and Wellness Centres to deliver comprehensive primary healthcare close to the community, and second, providing insurance cover to 40 per cent of India’s population, that is most deprived, for secondary and tertiary care including for instance, hospitalization costs.
World Health Day: Visit a doctor every 6 months; use tech to track medication
*Mental health support: Visits to psychologists can be inconvenient and difficult for people suffering from mental health concerns. Technology-driven solutions that connect your family and you conveniently to a therapist via a phone or computer are ideal to provide the kind of mental health support your family needs.
Adopt Clinical Establishment Act, Health Ministry urges states
Also, families without shelter, destitute, those living on alms, manual scavenger families, primitive tribal groups, legally released bonded labour in rural areas will be included.For urban areas, 11 defined occupational categories, including rag-pickers, beggars, domestic workers, cobblers, hawkers, construction workers, plumbers, painters and security guards are entitled under the scheme.
Facebook junks project to collect patients’ health data: Report
“The project could have raised new concerns about the massive amount of data Facebook collects about its users, and how this data can be used in ways users never expected.”
Want to protect your brain from ageing? Stay away from stressful life events
“Having more midlife fateful life events, particularly relating to divorce/separation or a family death, was associated with advanced predicted brain ageing,” said Sean Hatton from University of California, San Diego in the US.
Starbucks coffee in California must have cancer warning, judge says
“While plaintiff offered evidence that consumption of coffee increases the risk of harm to the fetus, to infants, to children and to adults, defendants’ medical and epidemiology experts testified that they had no opinion on causation,” Berle wrote in his proposed ruling. “Defendants failed to satisfy their burden of proving … that consumption of coffee confers a benefit to human health.”
Walmart may buy health insurer Humana
Americans spent $3.3 trillion on healthcare in 2016, or $10,348 per person. It’s roughly 18% of the nation’s gross domestic product, dwarfing retail’s 6% share. As Amazon expands into bigger and higher margin sectors, Walmart is scrambling to keep up.