{"id":15344,"date":"2020-03-03T16:00:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T07:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/mar\/03\/yellow-bindis-mean-high-risk-indias-new-health-map-for-women-and-children"},"modified":"2020-03-03T16:00:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T07:00:06","slug":"yellow-bindis-mean-high-risk-indias-new-health-map-for-women-and-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15344","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Yellow bindis&#8217; mean high-risk: India&#8217;s new health map for women and children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pioneering Rajasthan initiative helps health workers reach families in greatest need first, increasing identification of malnutrition and issues in pregnancy<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s 10am and time for the first home visit of the day. After consulting a colour-coded map on the wall of the village centre, the three female health workers make their way through the winding lanes of a remote village in Jhalawar district, Rajasthan, where the rice has been harvested and garlic is being planted, to the home of Nirmala.<\/p>\n<p>The yellow bindi (dot) on the map indicates that Nirmala and her children are highly likely to become malnourished without the proper care, which means the family is a priority for health services.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/mar\/03\/yellow-bindis-mean-high-risk-indias-new-health-map-for-women-and-children\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pioneering Rajasthan initiative helps health workers reach families in greatest need first, increasing identification of malnutrition and issues in pregnancyIt\u2019s 10am and time for the first home visit of the day. After consulting a colour-coded map on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1076,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59,346,62,1187,1188,1186,79,61,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-health","category-india","category-infant-and-child-mortality","category-malnutrition","category-maternal-health","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-women","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15345,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15344\/revisions\/15345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}