Health Indicators
Indicators of Health:
• To measure the health status of a community.
• To compare the health status of country with that of another.
Characteristics of indicators:
1. It Should be valid.
2. It Should be specific.
3. It Should be sensitive.
4. It Should be relevant.
5. It Should be reliable & objective.
Indicators of Health
- Mortality indicators
- Morbidity indicators
- Disability rates
- Nutritional status indicators
- Health care delivery indicators
- Utilization rates
- Indicators of social & mental health
- Environmental indicators
- Socio‐economic indicators
- Healthy policy indicators