Mental health most neglected field in Pakistan. Rawalpindi Mental health is the most neglected field in Pakistan where 10-16% of the population, more than 14 million, suffers from mild to moderate psychiatric illness, majority of which are women.
Pakistan has only one psychiatrist for every 10,000 persons suffering from any of the mental disorders, while one child psychiatrist for four million children, who are estimated to be suffering from mental health issues. Only four major psychiatric hospitals exists for the population of 180 million and it is one the major factors behind increase in number of patients with mental disorders. Head of Community Medicine at CMH Lahore Medical College Professor Dr Muhammad Ashraf Chaudhry expressed this while talking to ‘The News;’ in connection with World Mental Health Day being observed on October 10 (on Wednesday) around the globe. This year the theme for World Mental Health Day is ‘Depression’: A Global Crisis’. Dr. Dr. Dr.
Data. About Human Development. The first Human Development Report in 1990 opened with the simply stated premise that has guided all subsequent Reports: “People are the real wealth of a nation.”
By backing up this assertion with an abundance of empirical data and a new way of thinking about and measuring development, the Human Development Report has had a profound impact on policies around the world. "The basic purpose of development is to enlarge people's choices. In principle, these choices can be infinite and can change over time. What’s wrong with Pakistan? On a recent visit to Pakistan, I couldn’t help but notice the general despondency.
The writer is a lawyer and political commentator based in London ayesha.khan@tribune.com.pk On a recent visit to Pakistan, I couldn’t help but notice the general despondency. With food prices escalating, gas loadshedding making a cold winter unbearable, unemployment growing, law and order deteriorating abysmally, life is undoubtedly hard. 51% of Pakistanis deprived of basic education, health. Over half of Pakistanis are deprived of basic education and health facilities.
The country’s overall HDI ranking is now 125 among 169 nations. Annual Status of Education Report. The good news, children are going to school, but the bad news is that they can’t even read.
Madrassas have become less relevant as a medium of education but perhaps this means that 'intolerance' is now being perpetuated. PHOTO: EPA/FILE KARACHI: As if poor school infrastructure, lack of teachers and student absenteeism was not bad enough, the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) Pakistan 2010 reveals that even those children in rural Sindh who have access to teachers and are going to school, may be learning nothing at all.
The annual report which assessed school-going children, aged 3 to 16 years, from six districts of rural Sindh painted a worrisome picture of learning outcomes, showing that while 32 per cent do not go to school at all, 67 per cent of those who do, cannot read sentences in Urdu or Sindhi, 66.5 per cent cannot read sentences in English and 73 per cent cannot do two-digit subtraction sums. Despite the depressing revelations, perhaps all is not lost. Pakistan Social And Living Standards Measurement. The PSLM Project is designed to provide Social & Economic indicators in the alternate years at provincial and district levels.
The project was initiated in July 2004 and will continue up to June 2015. The data generated through surveys is used to assist the government In formulating the poverty reduction strategy as well as development plans at district level and for the rapid assessment of program in the overall context of MDGs. Welcome To ASER Pakistan. India and Pakistan: Ten years of the Bomb. Ten Years of The Bomb by Zia Mian(The Economic and Political Weekly, May 10, 2008) It is 10 years since India and Pakistan went openly nuclear.
The dangers of a nuclear south Asia are becoming more and more apparent, yet the governments of the two countries continue to build their arsenals. Both countries continue to produce plutonium for more and more bombs, both countries have been testing new kinds of delivery vehicles and both countries have conducted war games assuming the use of nuclear weapons. DISARMAMENT-PAKISTAN: Peace Movement Refuses To Be Browbeaten. Asia-Pacific, Headlines Beena Sarwar - Pakistani peaceniks have a wish list: their government should normalise relations with India, both countries should give up the option of war and shelve plans to acquire nuclear arsenals.
“If we don’t want to see destruction of the kind wreaked upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we must galvanise into action,” stresses Isa Daudpota, an Islamabad-based nuclear physicist-turned- sustainable development worker and peace activist. Worldometers - real time world statistics. Data.
Industrial Revolution and the Standard of Living. Between 1760 and 1860, technological progress, education, and an increasing capital stock transformed England into the workshop of the world.
Human Development Index statistics - countries compared. Agriculture Statistics and graphs related to agriculture are found here.
How many agricultural workers are there per hectare? Tractors? Which country produces the maximum cotton? Social Forces, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Dec., 1942), pp. 177-179.