Bharat Rakshak

Bit dated but shed light on the severity of the malnutrition problem http://www2.eastwestcenter.org/pop/misc/subj-14.pdf Good efforts to address the malnutrition problem but as usual UP and Bihar which needs the maximum attention are doing bad http://nac.nic.in/communication/meal.pdf Suraj I still d...

Suraj thanks for the link. You are spot on. Indian government should get out of the non essential services such as aviation, telecommunication and concentrate more on the health care and education. It is a well establish fact that poor nutrition and health leads to poor brain development. For better...

Shyamd, I posted two links about fortifying common salt with Iron or few modifications with local recipes to reduce the iron deficiency anemia in India. I think iodine fortification was promoted by Indian Government don't know why iron fortification is not promoted. A big drawback for iron supplemen...

The other spectrum of nutrition problems in India
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7388/515/a
Another big problem of the futurehttp://www.who.int/diabetes/facts/en/diabcare0504.pdf

Some good work done to reduce the childhood malnutrition in India. http://www.synergos.org/partnership/about/pcn.pdf

Incidence of childhood malnutrition is falling in India but we can do much better. http://www.empowerpoor.com/relatednews.asp?report=288 PS I started this thread not to whine but i genuinely want to discuss ideas and solutions for structural problems in India. I think unless we truly understand the ...

Interesting article about household wealth distribution in world. Some good observations about India. Since I know next to nothing about economics, gurus in the field can dissect it and make it palatable for us ignorant janata. http://www.wider.unu.edu/research/2006-2007/2006-2007-1/wider-wdhw-launc...

Continuing from the economy thread regarding Iron deficiency anemia in India.
http://www.ijppediatricsindia.org/artic ... kin;type=0

As per recommendation of Suraj starting this new thread for posting articles which discuss social, economical and health related structural problems in India.

From personal experience it was very difficult to convince my In laws that I do have full time job and degree in molecular biochemistry will be able to sustain good life for their daughter (see I am a poor dude with no IT/VT degree) heheheheheh

Alas nothing has changed in rural health care in India. I was praying there will be some improvement but the posted article was what I saw first hand. I was the first MO who actually lived on Rural hospital campus 24X7 for 280 days (mandatory days required) with 2 week vacations. The only solace I h...

I stumble upon few video links of Aero India 07 on defencenews.com by Scott Mahaskey. Don't know the whether they have been posted on the tread. if they are apologies in advance. http://www.defensenews.com/aero/video.php?id=29 http://www.defensenews.com/aero/video.php?id=35 http://www.defensenews.co...