tailieunhanh - Comparative Child Well-being across the OECD

Infection can spread through direct contact with an infected area of someone’s body or contact with contaminated hands or any substance or surface that holds infectious material (., saliva, mucous, diaper changing table). Many objects can absorb, retain, and transport germs. In childcare settings, the surfaces of floors, activity and food tables, diaper changing tables, doorknobs, toilet room surfaces, toys, and fabric objects may have many germs on them if they are not properly cleaned and sanitized. Direct head to head touching, shared hats and hairbrushes, or storing jackets so they touch each other can. | ISBN 978-92-64-05933-7 Doing Better for Children OECD 2009 Chapter 2 Comparative Child Well-being across the OECD This chapter offers an overview of child well-being across the OECD. It compares policy-focussed measures of child well-being in six dimensions chosen to cover the major aspects of children s lives material well-being housing and environment education health and safety risk behaviours and quality of school life. Each dimension is a composite of several indicators which in turn have been selected in part because they are relatively amenable to policy choices. This chapter presents the theory methodology and data sources behind the measures as well as the indicators for each member country in a comparable fashion. It is at the individual level that the indicators can best inform policy and comparisons can be most readily made. The data is reported by country and where possible by sex age and migrant status. All indicators presented in the framework are already publically available. There has been no attempt to collect new data. Note that no single aggregate score or overall country ranking for child well-being is presented. Nevertheless it is clear that no OECD country performs well on all fronts. 21 2. COMPARATIVE CHILD WELL-BEING ACROSS THE OECD Introduction How does child well-being compare across OECD countries This chapter presents a child well-being framework and compares outcome indicators for children in OECD countries across six dimensions material well-being housing and environment education health risk behaviours and quality of school life. The first section of this chapter presents a multi-dimensional child well-being framework for OECD countries before going on to review the theoretical and empirical literature on child well-being from a policy perspective in the second section. The third section explains the dimensions and indicator selection criteria used in the OECD child well-being framework. The fourth and final section presents and .