Indicators of health measuring the health status of community, but also comparing health status of one country with the another.
For the estimation of Health care requirements and for monitoring and evolutions of Health service activities and program.
Types of health indicator
1) Mortality indicator
a) Crude death rate
b) expectation of life
c) infant mortality rate
d) child death rate
e) maternal mortality ratio
2) morbidity indicators
a) incidence rate
b) prevalence rate
c) hospital attendance rate (OPD)
3) Disability Rate
a) work loss day
b) bed disability days
4) nutritional status indicator
a) weight and height
b) prevalence of low birth weight
5) Health care delivery indicator
a) Doctor population ratio
b) population nurse ratio
6) indicator of social and mental health
a) suicide
b) smoking
7) environmental indicator
a) solid waste
b) liquid waste
c) other biomedical waste
8) socio economic indicator
a) overcrowding
b) dependency ratio
