General Health and Population Indicators

Question 1

Health indicator

Answer 1

marker of health status, service provision, or resource availability

Question 2

Life expectancy

Answer 2

number of years an individual is likely to live

Question 3

Fertility rate

Answer 3

of births per 1,000 women of child-bearing age ( # of births / women aged 15-49 x 1000 )

Question 4

Crude Birth rate

Answer 4

the ratio of total live births during a specific time to total population from which births occured

Question 5

Contraceptive prevalence

Answer 5

the proportion of women of reproductive age (15-49) who are using a contraceptive method at a given point in time;

useful for measuring progress toward child and maternity health goals;

population based sample surveys are typically used to estimate contraceptive practice

Question 6

Information on death certificates

Answer 6

date of birth
date of death 
stated age
place of death
marital status 
cause of death 
underlying cause of death

Question 7

Crude mortality rate

Answer 7

number of deaths / population from which deaths occured x 100,000

Question 8

Cause-specific mortality rate

Answer 8

number of deaths from a specific cause / population from which those deaths arise 100,000

Question 9

Infant mortality rate

Answer 9

number of deaths under 1 year of age during a specific time / number of live births in the same time period x 1,000

Question 10

Neonatal mortality rate

Answer 10

number of deaths under 27 days of life in a specified time period / number of live births in the same time period x 1,000

Question 11

postneonatal mortality rate

Answer 11

number of newborns dying between 18 and 364 days of age

Question 12

perinatal mortality rate

Answer 12

death of a fetus/neonate

Question 13

YPLL

Answer 13

years of potential life lost; the average years a person would’ve lived if they hadn’t deceased prematurely

Question 14

Case fatality rate

Answer 14

the proportion of persons with a peticular condition that die from that condition