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Kerala Startup Mission (KSUM)<ul class="ChallengerEditorTheme__ul_dark" style="color: rgb(255,255,255);"><li value="1" class="ChallengerEditorTheme__listItem_dark">KSUM is the nodal agency for promoting entrepreneurship in Kerala, implementing the Kerala Technology Startup Policy.</li><li value="2" class="ChallengerEditorTheme__listItem_dark">KSUM started its operation in 2006 </li><li value="3" class="ChallengerEditorTheme__listItem_dark">It promotes technology-based entrepreneurship, creates infrastructure for startups, and supports high-end technology-based businesses.</li><li value="4" class="ChallengerEditorTheme__listItem_dark">KSUM's approach enables startups to collaborate with government schemes and infrastructure, facilitating development of impactful technology solutions.</li></ul>

<ul class="ChallengerEditorTheme__ul_dark" style="color: rgb(255,255,255);"><li value="1" class="ChallengerEditorTheme__listItem_dark">Regions and countries are often categorized into different stages or classifications based on their achievements in economic growth and human development. </li><li value="2" class="ChallengerEditorTheme__listItem_dark">Vicious Circle (Vicious):</li><li value="3" class="ChallengerEditorTheme__listItem_dark ChallengerEditorTheme__nestedListItem_dark"><ul class="ChallengerEditorTheme__ul_dark" style="color: rgb(255,255,255);"><li value="1" class="ChallengerEditorTheme__listItem_dark">This term is often used to describe a situation where negative factors reinforce each other, creating a cycle of worsening conditions.</li><li value="2" class="ChallengerEditorTheme__listItem_dark">In the context of economic growth and human development, a vicious circle might refer to a situation where low income leads to limited access to education and healthcare</li><li value="3" class="ChallengerEditorTheme__listItem_dark">It in turn leads to poor health and limited economic opportunities, perpetuating the cycle of poverty and underdevelopment.</li></ul></li><li value="3" class="ChallengerEditorTheme__listItem_dark">Virtuous Circle (Virtuous):</li><li value="4" class="ChallengerEditorTheme__listItem_dark ChallengerEditorTheme__nestedListItem_dark"><ul class="ChallengerEditorTheme__ul_dark" style="color: rgb(255,255,255);"><li value="1" class="ChallengerEditorTheme__listItem_dark">A virtuous circle describes a situation where positive factors reinforce each other, leading to a cycle of improvement.</li><li value="2" class="ChallengerEditorTheme__listItem_dark">In the context of development, a virtuous circle might involve factors like investments in education leading to a skilled workforce, which, in turn, attracts businesses and economic growth, leading to increased resources for healthcare and further development. </li></ul></li><li value="4" class="ChallengerEditorTheme__listItem_dark">Human Development Lop-Sided: </li><li value="5" class="ChallengerEditorTheme__listItem_dark ChallengerEditorTheme__nestedListItem_dark"><ul class="ChallengerEditorTheme__ul_dark" style="color: rgb(255,255,255);"><li value="1" class="ChallengerEditorTheme__listItem_dark">This phrase suggests that there are imbalances in human development within a region or country.</li><li value="2" class="ChallengerEditorTheme__listItem_dark">It means that while some aspects of human development (like education or healthcare) may be well-developed, others may lag behind.</li><li value="3" class="ChallengerEditorTheme__listItem_dark">For example, a region with high literacy rates but inadequate access to healthcare might be considered to have lop-sided human development. </li></ul></li><li value="5" class="ChallengerEditorTheme__listItem_dark">Growth Lop-Sided:</li><li value="6" class="ChallengerEditorTheme__listItem_dark ChallengerEditorTheme__nestedListItem_dark"><ul class="ChallengerEditorTheme__ul_dark" style="color: rgb(255,255,255);"><li value="1" class="ChallengerEditorTheme__listItem_dark">This phrase suggests that economic growth is unevenly distributed within a region or country.</li><li value="2" class="ChallengerEditorTheme__listItem_dark">Some areas or sectors may experience rapid growth, while others may stagnate or decline.</li><li value="3" class="ChallengerEditorTheme__listItem_dark">This can lead to disparities in income, infrastructure, and living standards</li></ul></li></ul>

<ul class="ChallengerEditorTheme__ul_dark" style="color: rgb(255,255,255);"><li value="1" class="ChallengerEditorTheme__listItem_dark">Kerala has achieved a good health status compared to other States in India.</li></ul>Factors which played a leading role in influencing the health system in Kerala are :<ul class="ChallengerEditorTheme__ul_dark" style="color: rgb(255,255,255);"><li value="1" class="ChallengerEditorTheme__listItem_dark">Easy accessibility and coverage of medical care facilities</li><li value="2" class="ChallengerEditorTheme__listItem_dark">High literacy rate,</li><li value="3" class="ChallengerEditorTheme__listItem_dark">Well-functioning public distribution system</li><li value="4" class="ChallengerEditorTheme__listItem_dark">Less exploitation of the workers due to the presence of workers organisations etc. </li><li value="5" class="ChallengerEditorTheme__listItem_dark">The Peoples Campaign for Decentralised Planning initiated in 1996 helped improve infrastructure and service in primary and secondary healthcare institutions and widened healthcare delivery.</li><li value="6" class="ChallengerEditorTheme__listItem_dark">In Kerala, both modern medicine and AYUSH systems play a crucial role in providing universal access and availability to the poorer sections of society.</li><li value="7" class="ChallengerEditorTheme__listItem_dark">Kerala has made significant gains in health indices such as high life expectancy, low infant mortality rate, birth rate, and death rate, etc.</li></ul>‘Low mortality and High morbidity syndrome’<ul class="ChallengerEditorTheme__ul_dark" style="color: rgb(255,255,255);"><li value="1" class="ChallengerEditorTheme__listItem_dark">Although Kerala has made remarkable accomplishments in socio-demographic indices, studies show the existence of a ‘low mortality and high morbidity syndrome’ in Kerala.</li><li value="2" class="ChallengerEditorTheme__listItem_dark">The vast majority of these studies depend upon reported morbidity or on perceived morbidity, which, to great extent, relies upon a person's view of illness.</li><li value="3" class="ChallengerEditorTheme__listItem_dark">A high mortality rate, combined with low morbidity (low prevalence of diseases or illnesses), would typically indicate that people are dying at a high rate despite not having many diseases</li><li value="4" class="ChallengerEditorTheme__listItem_dark">It is indicating that the healthcare system is not effectively preventing deaths.</li><li value="5" class="ChallengerEditorTheme__listItem_dark">Kerala has extended health service, combined with universal literacy as compared to the past and this might be a reason for early detection and diagnosis of&nbsp;diseases&nbsp;and results in the high morbidity rates in Kerala.</li><li value="6" class="ChallengerEditorTheme__listItem_dark">Non-communicable diseases are more prominent in Kerala; with infectious diseases and malnutrition being concentrated among the poor and lifestyle diseases are on the rise among the rich.</li></ul>

There is a syndrome of low mortality and high morbidity.

There is a syndrome of high mortality and low morbidity.

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