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Teresa A. Hillier, MD, MS, was a practicing endocrinologist and senior investigator at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research. Her research included how modifiable risk factors earlier in life can affect future risk of endocrine diseases, including gestational diabetes, obesity, metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, and osteoporosis. Dr. Hillier was also the principal investigator of the Study of Osteoporotic Fractures (SOF). She passed away in 2023.

1. Vital Statistics in Paediatrics

2. Children under 15 years comprise about 30% of India’s population India has the highest number of child births as well as child deaths for any single nation in the world

3. Child mortality indices in India Under 5 mortality rate = 52 per 1000 live birth Infant mortality rate = 42 per 1000 live births Neonatal mortality rate= 29/ 1000 live births ENMR = 23/ 1000 live births

4. Health system in India Village level Subcenters PHC CHC District hospitals Medical college and tertiary hospitals

5. National Programmes on Child Health National rural health mission Strategic approach to reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (RMNCH+A strategy)