Core Health Indicators
Health determinants and risks
Demographic and socioeconomic determinants
- Population size (in thousands)
- Population living in urban areas (Percentage)
- Population growth-Percentage
- Life expectancy at birth (years)
- Total fertility rate
- Adolescent fertility rate (per 1000 girls aged 15-19 years)
- Net primary school enrolment ratio per 100 school-age children
- Population below the international poverty line
- Literacy Rate (15-24) years
- Population using safely managed drinking water services (%)
- Population using safely managed sanitation services (%)
Risk factors
- Low birth weight among newborns
- Exclusive breastfeeding under 6 months (%)
- Children under 5 who are stunted
- Children under 5 who are wasted
- Children under 5 who are overweight
- Children aged under 5 who are obese
- Overweight - Youth (13-18 years)
- Obesity - Youth(13-18 years)
- Overweight - Adults(18+ years)
- Obesity - Adults(18+ years)
- Tobacco use (13-15 years)
- Tobacco use (15+ years)
- Insufficient physical activity (13-18 years)
- Insufficient physical activity (18+ years)
- Raised blood glucose (18+ years)
- Raised blood pressure - Adults (18+ years)
- Anaemia among women of reproductive age (15-49) years
Health Status
Mortality
- Neonatal mortality rate per 1000 live births
- Infant mortality rate per 1000 live births
- Under five mortality rate per 1000 live births
- Maternal mortality ratio
- Mortality rate by main cause of death (age-standardized) per 100 000 population
- Probability of dying between age 30 and exact age 70 from any of cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, chronic respiratory diseases
- Mortality rate due to road traffic injuries-per 100 000 population
- Mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution (per 100 000 population) (SDG 3.9.1)
- Mortality rate attributed to unsafe water, unsafe sanitation and lack of hygiene per 100000
Morbidity
- Cancer (All types) incidence rate per 100 000
- Tuberculosis (TB) case notification
- HIV- Estimated number of new infections
- Number of newly reported HIV cases
- Hepatitis B incidence rate per 100 000 population
- Malaria-Incidence of confirmed cases
- Malaria - Total number of reported cases
- Measles-Incidence of cases per 1000 000 population
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDS)
- Reported number of people requiring interventions against neglected tropical diseases - Number of new cases requiring individual treatment and care
- Reported number of people requiring interventions against neglected tropical diseases - Number of people requiring mass treatment (preventive chemotherapy)
Health System Response
Health expenditures
- Current Health Expenditure (CHE) per Capita in US$
- Out-of-pocket (OOPS) as % of Current Health Expenditure (CHE)
- Domestic General Government Health Expenditure (GGHE-D) as % General Government Expenditure (GGE)
- Population with catastrophic health expenditure
- Population impoverished due to out-of-pocket health expenditure
Health workforce
- Personnel per 10 000 population-Physicians
- Personnel per 10 000 population-Nursing and midwifery
- Personnel per 10 000 population-Dentists
- Personnel per 10 000 population-Pharmacists
- Density of recent graduates - Physicians per 100 000 population
- Density of recent graduates - Nursing and midwifery per 100 000 population
- Density of recent graduates - Dentists per 100 000 population
- Density of recent graduates - Pharmacists per 100 000 population
Health system capacity
Medicines and medical devices
Service delivery
Service coverage
- Demand for family planning satisfied with modern methods
- Antenatal care coverage (1+)
- Antenatal care coverage (4+)
- Skilled births attendance
- DTP3-containing vaccine/ pentavalent coverage among children under 1 year of age
- Measles immunization coverage (MCV1)
- Suspected malaria cases that have had a diagnostic test (%)
- Percentage of population sleeping under insecticide-treated nets (ITN)
- Key populations at higher risk who have received HIV test in the past 12 months and know their results (%)
- Estimated antiretroviral therapy coverage among adults and children living with HIV (%)
- Tuberculosis treatment success rate of new and relapsed TB cases notified
- Children under 5 with diarrhoea receiving oral rehydration therapy
- Service coverage for severe mental health disorders-Percentage
- Treatment coverage for opioid dependence
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