Indians are living longer, but healthy life expectancy has increased slowly and a complex mix of fatal and non-fatal ailments cause a tremendous amount of health loss, according to a new analysis of 306 diseases and injuries in 188 countries.
India is a popular destination for clinical trials as there is a pool of easily available volunteers and the cost of trials is cheaper.
Globally, 15.6% of total government expenditure was dedicated to health, according to WHO report 2013.
Air pollution killed 3.7 million people in 2012 and according to WHO it is one of the major environmental health concerns.
In past three years 401910 people including 23145 students committed suicide in India.
Number of missing women has steadily risen from 61 million to 126 million between 1970 and 2010. This increase is faster than that of the world population, with China and India accounting for most of the deficit in women.