Indicator Definitions and Metadata
Health Status: Mortality
- Life expectancy at birth (years)
- Healthy life expectancy (HALE) at birth (years)
- Probability of dying aged 15-60 years per 1 000 population (adult mortality rate)
- Probability of dying aged < 5 years per 1000 live births (under-five mortality rate)
- Neonatal mortality rate (per 1000 live births)
- Maternal mortality ratio (per 100 000 live births)
- Deaths due to HIV/AIDS (per 100 000 population)
- Deaths due to tuberculosis (per 100 000 population)
- Age-standardized mortality rates by cause (per 100 000 population)
- Distribution of years of life lost by broader causes (percentage of total)
- Distribution of causes of death among children aged < 5 years (percentage of total)
Health Status: Morbidity
- HIV prevalence among adults aged ≥ 15 years (per 100 000 population)
- Prevalence of tuberculosis (per 100 000 population)
- Incidence of tuberculosis (per 100 000 population per year)
- Number of confirmed cases of poliomyelitis
Health service coverage
- Immunization coverage among 1-years-olds
- Antenatal care coverage (percentage)
- Births attended by skilled health personnel (percentage)
- Contraceptive prevalence rate (percentage)
- Children aged < 5 years sleeping under insecticide-treated bednets (percentage)
- Antiretroviral therapy coverage among people with advanced HIV infections (percentage)
- Tuberculosis detection rate under DOTS (percentage)
- Tuberculosis treatment success under DOTS (percentage)
- Children aged < 5 years with ARI symptoms taken to facility (percentage)
- Children < 5 years with diarrhoea receiving oral rehydration therapy (percentage)
- Children aged < 5 years with fever who received treatment with any antimalarial (percentage)
- Children 6-59 months who received vitamin A supplementation (percentage)
- Births by Caesarean section (percentage)
Risk factors
- Children aged < 5 years
- Low-birthweight newborns (percentage)
- Adults aged ≥ 15 years who are obese (percentage)
- Access to improved drinking water sources and to improved sanitation (percentage)
- Population using solid fuels (percentage)
- Prevalence of current tobacco use in adolescents (13-15 years) (percentage)
- Prevalence of current tobacco use among adults aged ≥ 15 years (percentage)
- Per capita recorded alcohol consumption (litres of pure alcohol) among adults (≥ 15 years)
- Prevalence of condom use by young people (15-24 years) at higher risk sex (percentage)
Health systems
- Human resources for health
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National health accounts
-Total expenditure on health as a percentage of GDP
-General government expenditure on health as a percentage of total general government expenditure
-Per-capita total expenditure on health at international dollar rate -
National health acounts
-General government expenditure on health as a percentage of total expenditure on health
-General government expenditure on health as a percentage of total government expenditure
-External resources for health as a percentage of total expenditure on health
-Social security expenditure on health as a percentage of general government expenditure on health
-Out-of-pocket expenditure as a percentage of private expenditure on health
-Private prepaid plans as a percentage of private expenditure on health
-Per-capita total expenditure on health at average exchange rate (US$)
-Per-capita government expenditure on health at average exchange rate (US$)
-Per-capita government expenditure on health at international dollar rate