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India third lowest in pneumonia, diarrhoea intervention
Kolkata,: In a damning indictment of its poor health services and coverage, India finds itself ranked the third lowest among 15 high-burden countries when it comes to coverage and implementing vital pneumonia and diarrhoea interventions, according to a report.
The 2014 Pneumonia and Diarrhoea Progress Report evaluates the progress of the 15 highest-burden countries — India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Angola, China, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Kenya, Sudan, Bangladesh, Niger, Chad and Uganda.
The rankings were based on latest child mortality estimates in implementing high-impact interventions outlined in the Integrated Global Action Plan for Prevention and Control of Pneumonia and Diarrhoea (GAPPD) for which data was available.
The GAPPD is developed and issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Unicef with the goal of ending preventable pneumonia and diarrhoea mortality in children by 2025.
The parameters include vaccination, exclusive breastfeeding, access to care, and use of antibiotics, oral rehydration solution (ORS), and zinc.
According to the report released Wednesday, India is third lowest while Chad is the worst performer in the GAPPD intervention scores. Nigeria ranks second lowest in the overall GAPPD score.
The findings were released by the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
It said that as in previous years, the burden of child pneumonia and diarrhoea mortality continues to be most heavily concentrated in just a few countries.
The 15 countries with the greatest number of under-five child deaths from pneumonia and diarrhoea in 2013 bore 71 percent of the global burden of child deaths from these two diseases in spite of accounting for only 56 percent of the world’s under five-year-old population.
For the first time, the report also included a sub-national analysis for India. A total of 27 states in India for which data was available were ranked on the basis of their GAPPD score.
Goa performed the best and Meghalaya the worst. The analysis also revealed high levels of inequities in access to interventions between urban and rural regions within states.
Kate O’Brien, professor at Johns Hopkins and IVAC executive director, said: “This year’s report takes a special look within two large and high-burden countries, India and Nigeria, to identify inequities in coverage levels that exist between states.”
“This kind of sub-national analysis is important for identifying areas to focus efforts on accelerating coverage with all prevention and treatment tools,” she said.
In September, the health and family welfare ministry, along with representatives from high pneumonia and diarrhoea burden states and districts, WHO, Unicef, and other stakeholders came together to propose and develop the Integrated Action Plan for Pneumonia and Diarrhoea (IAPPD).
This includes a framework for monitoring selected high-burden state- and district-level progress in achieving GAPPD targets via ‘score cards’ and ensuring accountability in the implementation of corrective actions following regular reviews of the score cards.
International online casino Casino Days has published a report sharing their internal data on what types and brands of devices are used to play on the platform by users from the South Asian region.
Such aggregate data analyses allow the operator to optimise their website for the brands and models of devices people are actually using.
The insights gained through the research also help Casino Days tailor their services based on the better understanding of their clients and their needs.
Desktops and Tablets Lose the Battle vs Mobile
The primary data samples analysed by Casino Days reveal that mobile connections dominate the market in South Asia and are responsible for a whopping 96.6% of gaming sessions, while computers and tablets have negligible shares of 2.9% and 0.5% respectively.
The authors of the study point out that historically, playing online casino was exclusively done on computers, and attribute thе major shift to mobile that has unfolded over time to the wide spread of cheaper smartphones and mobile data plans in South Asia.
“Some of the reasons behind this massive difference in device type are affordability, technical advantages, as well as cheaper and more obtainable internet plans for mobiles than those for computers,” the researchers comment.
Xiaomi and Vivo Outperform Samsung, Apple Way Down in Rankings
Chinese brands Xiaomi and Vivo were used by 21.9% and 20.79% of Casino Days players from South Asia respectively, and together with the positioned in third place with a 18.1% share South Korean brand Samsung dominate the market among real money gamers in the region.
Cupertino, California-based Apple is way down in seventh with a user share of just 2.29%, overshadowed by Chinese brands Realme (11.43%), OPPO (11.23%), and OnePlus (4.07%).
Huawei is at the very bottom of the chart with a tiny share just below the single percent mark, trailing behind mobile devices by Motorola, Google, and Infinix.
The data on actual phone usage provided by Casino Days, even though limited to the gaming parts of the population of South Asia, paints a different picture from global statistics on smartphone shipments by vendors.
Apple and Samsung have been sharing the worldwide lead for over a decade, while current regional leader Xiaomi secured their third position globally just a couple of years ago.
Striking Android Dominance among South Asian Real Money Gaming Communities
The shifted market share patterns of the world’s top smartphone brands in South Asia observed by the Casino Days research paper reveal a striking dominance of Android devices at the expense of iOS-powered phones.
On the global level, Android enjoys a comfortable lead with a sizable 68.79% share which grows to nearly 79% when we look at the whole continent of Asia. The data on South Asian real money gaming communities suggests that Android’s dominance grows even higher and is north of the 90% mark.
Among the major factors behind these figures, the authors of the study point to the relative affordability of and greater availability of Android devices in the region, especially when manufactured locally in countries like India and Vietnam.
“And, with influencers and tech reviews putting emphasis on Android devices, the choice of mobile phone brand and OS becomes easy; Android has a much wider range of products and caters to the Asian online casino market in ways that Apple can’t due to technical limitations,” the researchers add.
The far better integration achieved by Google Pay compared to its counterpart Apple Pay has also played a crucial role in shaping the existing smartphone market trends.
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