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Healthcare in West Bengal features a universal health care system run by the state and the federal governments. The Constitution of India charges every state with "raising of the level of nutrition and the standard of living of its people and the improvement of public health as among its primary duties".
The Madras Devadasis (Prevention of Dedication) Act (also called the Tamil Nadu Devadasis (Prevention of Dedication) Act or the Madras Devadasi Act) is a law that was enacted on 9 October 1947 just after India became independent from British rule. [1]
The Annamalai University (informally titled as AU) is a public state university [3] in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India.The 1,500-acre (6.1 km 2) sprawling campus offers courses of higher education in arts, science, engineering, management, humanities, agriculture, and physical education.
improve the quality of MCH care at the rural community level (proper history taking, palpation, blood pressure and fetal heart screening, risk factor screening, and referral); improve quality of care at the primary health care level (emergency care and proper referral); include in the postpartum program MCH and family planning services;
Preventive healthcare strategies are described as taking place at the primal, [2] primary, [13] secondary, and tertiary prevention levels. Although advocated as preventive medicine in the early twentieth century by Sara Josephine Baker, [14] in the 1940s, Hugh R. Leavell and E. Gurney Clark coined the term primary prevention.
The Tamil Nadu Public Health Act, 1939; The Tamil Nadu Public Libraries Act, 1948; The Tamil Nadu Public Men Council (Criminal Misconduct) Repeal Act, 1977; The Tamil Nadu Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Act, 1975; The Tamil Nadu Public Property (Prevention of Damage and Loss) Act, 1992
The institute functions under Director of Medical Education and Department of Health and Family Welfare (Tamil Nadu). [2] It was one of the major institutions in India responsible for eradicating small pox by the production of vaccine. It is also one of the referral centers for bacterial and viral diseases in Tamil Nadu. Various wings at the ...
Violence against women in Tamil Nadu includes molestation, abduction, dowry-related violence, and domestic violence. The police recorded 1,130 cases during the first seven months in 2013, compared to 860 for the corresponding period in 2012.