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1. Last week, The Lancet released the Global Burden of Disease 2015 study. On the global front
there is good news: Between 1990 and 2015, deaths of children under five have gone down by
half. But for India, the news was sombre: India has had the highest number of such deaths at
1.3 million in 2015. In the first-ever estimates of the number of stillbirths, the study counted 2.1
million such instances in 2015. The number of stillbirths in India was estimated at 0.61 million.
Of the 195 countries studied, 122 countries have met the Sustainable Development Goal target
to reduce the number of women dying from pregnancy-related causes to less than 70 for every
100,000 live births by 2030.
2. The study also indicated why India is still struggling to tackle such deaths, and the reason is not
new: Poor last-mile delivery of health programmes such as the Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY)
programme. While the JSY has been successful at increasing reproductive health-care services,
it has not been as effective at reaching poor rural women, the socio-demo-graphic group that is
at the highest risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes, the study said. Last year a report said that
many hospitals even at the district level fail to meet the basic requirement of the programme
such as free transport, food, medicines and check-ups for pregnant women.
3. While investing in health services to improve its record, India must not forget the important link
that exists between meeting the challenge of maternal/child health and education. According to
the United Nations, improving access to education is an
essential building-block for increasing
the number of trained health workers, particularly at the community level, and it also helps build
the kind of behaviours and habits that have a positive impact on an individual's health. Children
who complete basic education eventually become parents who are more capable of providing
quality care for their own children and who make better use of health and other social services
available to them. Evidence indicates that when girls with a basic education reach adulthood, they
are more likely, than those without an education, to manage the size of their families according
to their capacities, and are more likely to provide better care for their children and send them
to school.
(Source: The Hindustan Times)​

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