For the second time in a row, Kerala has emerged as the top ranking state in\nterms of overall health performance, according to second health index launched\nby NITI Aayog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The second index took into account base year — 2015-2016 — to reference\nyear — 2017-2018. According to the index, Uttar Pradesh is the worst when it\ncomes to overall health performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The ranking was done under three categories — larger states, smaller states\nand Union territories (UTs) — to ensure comparison among similar entities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gujarat, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh stood at fourth, fifth and sixth spots,\naccording to the report, titled “Healthy States, Progressive\nIndia: Report on Rank of States and UTs”<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra have emerged as the top ranking\nstates based on historical performance across health indicators while Haryana,\nRajasthan and Jharkhand top the index based on incremental performance in the\nsecond edition of health index launched by the government think tank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The health index is a composite measure of states and union territories\nbased on 23 health indicators with major weightage to outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kerala, Punjab, and Tamil Nadu had ranked on top in terms of overall\nperformance, while Jharkhand, Jammu and Kashmir, and Uttar Pradesh were the top\nthree ranking states in terms of annual incremental performance in the first\nranking of states on health parameters which was published in February 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The second edition of the report focuses on measuring the overall\nperformance and incremental improvement over a two-year period — 2016-17 and\n2017-18 — in the states and UTs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the press conference, chaired by Amit Kant, CEO of NITI Aayog highlighted\nthat state’s ranking would impact the budget they get from the Centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Incremental performance:<\/strong> For the second time in a row, Kerala has emerged as the top ranking state in terms of overall health performance, according to second health index launched by NITI Aayog. The second index took into account base year — 2015-2016 — to reference year — 2017-2018. According to the index, Uttar Pradesh is the worst […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[80,67],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-2803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles","tag-health-current-affairs","tag-kerala-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2805,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803\/revisions\/2805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2803"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=2803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIn terms of incremental performances, Haryana, Rajasthan, and\nJharkhand <\/strong>made the maximum improvement in terms of health among\nlarger states.
\nSmaller states:<\/strong>
\nAmong the smaller states, Mizoram ranked first<\/strong>\nin overall performance<\/strong>, while Tripura and Manipur<\/strong> were top\ntwo states in terms of incremental performance.<\/strong>
\nUnion Territories:<\/strong>
\nAmong the Union Territories, Chandigarh<\/strong>\nranked first <\/strong>in overall performance,\nwhile Dadra and Nagar Haveli <\/strong>made\nthe most improvement.
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\nReport prepared by:<\/strong>
\nThe report was prepared NITI Aayog in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare<\/strong>\nwith technical assistance from the World Bank.<\/strong>
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\nHealthy States Progressive India:<\/strong>
\nNITI Aayog’s report, titled ‘Healthy States Progressive\nIndia’<\/strong>, ranked states and Union Territories (UTs) based on the\nHealth Index. The evaluation was based on 23 indicators that covers the key\naspects of health sector performance.
\nThe first edition of the report of this kind was\nreleased in 2018<\/strong>. It measured the annual and incremental\nperformances of states and UTs for period 2014-15 (as base year) to 2015-16 (as\nreference year).
\nIn the 2018 report, Kerala, Punjab, and Tamil\nNadu<\/strong> had ranked on top in terms of overall performance <\/strong>among\nbigger states. Jharkhand, Jammu and Kashmir,\nand Uttar Pradesh <\/strong>topped in terms of annual incremental performance.<\/strong>
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\nNITI Aayog:<\/strong>
\nFormed on: <\/strong>1 January 2015
\nHeadquarters:<\/strong> Delhi \n
\nChairman:<\/strong> Narendra Modi
\nVice Chairman: <\/strong>Rajiv Kumar
\nCEO: <\/strong>Amitabh Kant
\nIt replaced the Planning Commission.<\/strong>
\nThe government think tank aims to achieve Sustainable\nDevelopment Goals (SDG).<\/strong> It also plans to enhance\ncooperative federalism by fostering the involvement of State Governments of\nIndia in the economic policy-making process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"