{"id":85039,"date":"2020-09-05T16:12:09","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T10:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=17288"},"modified":"2020-09-05T16:12:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T10:42:09","slug":"kerala-tops-in-care-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/kerala-tops-in-care-for-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala tops in care for children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>Mobile Creches, a non-governmental organization has released Young Child Outcomes Index(YCOI) and Young Child Environment Index(YCEI)<strong> <\/strong>as a part of its \u2018State of the Young Child in India\u2019 report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Young Child Outcomes Index(YCOI): <\/strong>The index has been constructed for two time periods (2005\u20132006 and 2015\u20132016) to enable inter-State comparisons as well as provide an idea of change over time.<\/li><li><strong>Parameters:<\/strong> The index measures health, nutrition and cognitive growth with the help of indicators such as infant mortality rate, stunting and net attendance at the primary school level.<\/li><li><strong>Key Takeaways:&nbsp;<\/strong><ul><li><strong>Top States: <\/strong>Kerala, Goa, Tripura, Tamil Nadu and Mizoram are among the top five States for well-being of children.<\/li><li><strong>Below Average States: <\/strong>It identifies eight States that have scores below the country\u2019s average: they are Assam, Meghalaya, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Young Child Environment Index(YCEI):<\/strong> The index aims to understand the policy and environment enablers that influence a child\u2019s well-being.It was constructed for 2015\u20132016 only due to limitations of data availability.<\/li><li><strong>Parameters: <\/strong>The index uses five policy enablers that influence child well-being outcomes, including poverty alleviation, strengthening primary health care, improving education levels, safe water supply and promotion of gender equity.<\/li><li><strong>Key Takeaways:<\/strong><ul><li><strong>Topped by: <\/strong>Kerala, Goa, Sikkim, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh secured the top five positions.<\/li><li><strong>Below Average States: <\/strong>It identifies eight States that have scores below the country\u2019s average: they are Assam, Meghalaya, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Mobile Creches, a non-governmental organization has released Young Child Outcomes Index(YCOI) and Young Child Environment Index(YCEI) as a part of its \u2018State of the Young Child in India\u2019 report. Facts: Young Child Outcomes Index(YCOI): The index has been constructed for two time periods (2005\u20132006 and 2015\u20132016) to enable inter-State comparisons as well as provide&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/kerala-tops-in-care-for-children\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kerala tops in care for children<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[956],"tags":[2171],"class_list":["post-85039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schemes-and-programs","tag-state-of-the-young-child-in-india-report","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704913469},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}