DID YOU KNOW?
- Approximately 74 million Indians between the ages of 20-79 years are living with diabetes.
- Measles kills nearly 50,000 children every year in India. There is no specific antiviral drug available to treat measles. The best way is to prevent through vaccination.
- Most cardiovascular diseases can be prevented by addressing behavioural risk factors such as tobacco use, unhealthy diet and obesity, physical inactivity and harmful use of alcohol.
- Most childhood cancers can be cured with generic medicines and other forms of treatment, including surgery and radiotherapy. Treatment of childhood cancer can be cost-effective in all income settings.
- Head and neck cancer presents a significant public health challenge in India, with a staggering annual incidence of over 100,000 new cases.
- The market size of anti-diabetes segment is worth Rs 16,704 crore for the year ended April 2023.
- In May 2023, Granules India reported information security incident. In March, Sun Pharma reported similar incident. In 2020, Dr Reddy's Laboratories and Lupin reported cyber security breaches.
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease results from long-term exposure to harmful gases and particles combined with individual factors, including events which influence lung growth in childhood and genetics.
- Around 45% of deaths among children under 5 years of age are linked to undernutrition. These mostly occur in low- and middle-income countries.
- Persons with disabilities have twice the risk of developing conditions such as depression, asthma, diabetes, stroke, obesity or poor oral health.
- Ebola virus disease (EVD), formerly known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever, is a rare but severe, often fatal illness in humans.
- An estimated 600 million – almost 1 in 10 people in the world – fall ill after eating contaminated food and 420,000 die every year, resulting in the loss of 33 million healthy life years.
- Over 1.5 million adolescents and young adults aged 10–24 years died in 2021, about 4500 every day.
- Globally, the population is ageing rapidly. Between 2015 and 2050, the proportion of the world's population over 60 years will nearly double, from 12% to 22%.
- Currently more than 55 million people have dementia worldwide, over 60% of whom live in low-and middle-income countries. Every year, there are nearly 10 million new cases.
- Mental and neurological disorders among older adults account for 6.6% of the total disability for this age group.
- Household air pollution was responsible for an estimated 3.2 million deaths per year in 2020, including over 237 000 deaths of children under the age of 5.
