Pakistanis buy food at a utility store in Islamabad. — AFP/FileFood safety pertains to the practices and protocols employed to prevent...
The term ‘climate change’ often raises issues of melting ice caps, raging wildfires, and rising sea levels. However, beneath these environmental...
The alarming reality of climate change has managed to get through to a large swathe of the population, with its implications on human health...
The impact of natural calamities on malnutrition is undeniably devastating, with a global increase in hunger, inadequate access to nutritious food,...
Most children in Pakistan continue to suffer from nutritional anaemia, particularly iron deficiency. There has been little improvement over the...
Nutritional anaemia has been identified as the most common and prevalent type of malnourishment in Pakistan among children. This is not a recent...
Poor dietary intake, especially iron, results in deprived mental and physical health, frequent illness and unhealthy population. This type of...
For years, the health burden linked with children and mothers has been largely ignored. If girls at their adolescent or reproductive age are...
Why is Pakistan not utilizing one of its most significant produce, available in abundant quantity, to increase its exports? Pakistan is the fourth...
The continued transmission of the poliovirus in Pakistan has become a major public health problem, as it is one of only few remaining polio-endemic...
Pakistan is blessed with several tourism opportunities – cultural, religious or nautical tourism.With an improved security situation, and through...
Widespread under-nutrition, especially iron deficiency, determines a range of negative consequences impacting the welfare of individuals and...
Iron deficiency poses a severe and alarming public health problem. It’s quite widespread in developing countries facing malnutrition for most of...
The World Water Week, from August till August 30, this year had the theme: ‘Water for Society: Including All’. The purpose of conducting a water...
The world marks July 28 as World Hepatitis Day with an aim to create awareness about the disease, its prevention, diagnosis and treatment. Global...
If safety protocols are ignored in the food value chain, starting from its production till consumption, it could lead to many disastrous diseases....
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA, each year, 1.7 million to 2.2 million persons die from waterborne diseases; one...
Pakistan ranks as the fourth largest milk producing country in the world. Milk and the livestock sector jointly contribute approximately 11 percent...
Around 49 percent of our population comprises women. According to the Global Gender Gap Index, which shows the gap between men and women based on...
How can people assess the changes that a political party will bring once it assumes office? What is the idea behind the creation of a particular...
The young population, especially when in their adolescent phase, that usually ranges between ages 11 and 19, is very important for the country’s...
Early childhood development and growth is a significant element of human life. The emotional, social and physical development of young children has...
It is a well-established fact that education, literacy and other indicators of women’s empowerment are strongly related to the improved nutrition...
The constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan under the chapter ‘Principles of Policy’ includes ‘wellbeing’ and ‘security’ as a...
Good nutrition has been recognised both as a basic ingredient and as an outcome of human development globally. As food and nutrition are important...
According to the National Nutrition Survey 2011, more than half of Pakistan’s women and two-thirds of its children suffer micronutrient...
More than 60 percent of one’s total body weight is water. Besides major functions like maintaining body temperature, processing important chemical...
Globally, each day around 1,600 women die from complications relate to pregnancy and childbirth. Like the rest of the developing world, Pakistan’s...
Childhood stunting is one of the major impediments to human development. Stunting, or low height for age, generally occurs before age two, and its...
The Millennium Development Goals – an idea of the UN – proved to be a historical moment for international development in 2000. Once the...
Malnutrition is the result of having insufficient nutrients in one’s diet. In Pakistan, it takes a heavy toll on the adult and child population in...
