Nutrition Food consumed by animals gets digested, absorbed and used to generate energy to perform day to day activities. But not all the components of food are digestible. The components of food that are utilized by the body are called nutrients and the process of obtaining the food needed for health and growth is known as nutrition. Classes and sources […]
The terms organic’ and eco friendly’ often go hand in hand for reasons obvious. When the greenhouse effect and global warming are utterly straining the planet, giving rise to various chronic diseases, organic farming has become the need of the hour as its benefits are immeasurable. Organic farming benefits all the elements of life. Long Term Sustainability Environment is drastically […]
Skilled and trained professionals like director of programs and services, public health management analysts, health communications specialists and research scientists in non-governmental and governmental organizations, private sector, national and multinational companies play an important role in moulding the public health worldwide. Importance of Public Health Public health extends beyond the view of traditional healthcare with practitioners in the field striving […]
The advent of biodynamic farming Biodynamic farming was first introduced in Germany in 1924 by Dr Rudolf Steiner to combat rapid degeneration of soil, deterioration of food quality and seed viability and vitality that occurred due to chemical farming. Chemical farming is a consequence of world wars when the residues of chemicals used in warfare and weapon manufacturing were used […]
What is Risk Management Risk management is essentially a means to forecast and evaluate risks which could be associated with finance, staff and resources and infrastructure involved and together with the identification of procedures to avoid or minimize their impact. Thus an organization essentially needs individuals who can assess and develop strategies to avoid or minimize the risk involved and […]
What is Agronomy? Agronomy can be defined as the science that deals with the principles and practices of field management concerning major field crops with its central theme being soil-plant-environment relationship. Agronomy is an interdisciplinary science that deals with the improvement and management of specific major food crops in the world. It is an integrated and holistic field that deals […]
In organic farming systems, soil fertility implies things beyond giving plants macro and micronutrients. The fertility of soil majorly depends on plants, soil organic matter and soil biology. Organic farming enhances soil fertility by improving its physical, biological and chemical properties. This method of farming mainly aims at maintaining nutrients in their natural reservoirs and in bioavailable forms that can […]
Global environmental health initiative spearheaded under World Health Organization (WHO) is focused on improving environmental health of the community; prevention of disease epidemics, infant and child mortality and morbidity rates in developing countries.Recent UN (United Nation) report has pointed out that the planet will suffer drastically from global warming withoutunprecedented changesin actions and behaviour. Environmental Health Environmental health involves evaluating […]
The exponential increase in scale and pace of emerging digitalhealthcare innovations and technologies can help improve patient experience, quality and accuracy of diagnosis, prevention and treatment of diseases.Investment in digitization has risen to allow highly trained workforce to focus on patient-facing activities, better usage of data and support research for morevaluable and personalized healthcare. Global health demands Current global healthcare […]
According to the WHO, 24 and 23 percent of global disease cases and deaths respectively occur as a result of degradation of environmental elements that pose a significant threat to public health worldwide. Environment Problems Extensive studies on interaction between human health and environment risks have been proven to have significant impact on public health by direct or indirect exposure […]