| The indicator is reported on a unitless scale of 0 to 100, which is computed as the geometric mean of 14 tracer indicators of health service coverage. The indicators are organized by four categories of service coverage: I. Reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health
1. Family planning: Percentage of women of reproductive age (15-49 years) who are married or in-union who have their need for family planning satisfied with modern methods.
2. Pregnancy and delivery care: Percentage of women aged 15-49 years with a live birth in a given time period who received antenatal care four or more times.
3. Child immunization: Percentage of infants receiving three doses of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis containing vaccine.
4. Child treatment: Percentage of children under 5 years of age with suspected pneumonia (cough and difficult breathing NOT due to a problem in the chest and a blocked nose) in the two weeks preceding the survey taken to an appropriate health facility or provider. II. Infectious diseases 5. Tuberculosis: Percentage of incident TB cases that are detected and successfully treated.
6. HIV/AIDS: Percentage of people living with HIV currently receiving antiretroviral therapy.
7. Malaria: Percentage of population in malaria-endemic areas who slept under an insecticide-treated net the previous night [only for countries with high malaria burden].
8. Water and sanitation: Percentage of households using at least basic sanitation facilities. III. Noncommunicable diseases 9. Hypertension: Age-standardized prevalence of non-raised blood pressure among adults aged 18 years and older, aged-standarized.
10. Diabetes: Age-standardized mean fasting plasma glucose (mmol/L) for adults aged 18 years and older.
11. Tobacco: Age-standardized prevalence of adults >=15 years not smoking tobacco in last 30 days. IV. Service capacity and access 12. Hospital access: Hospital beds per capita, relative to a maximum threshold of 18 per 10,000 population.
13. Health workforce: Health professionals (physicians, psychiatrists, and surgeons) per capita, relative to maximum thresholds for each cadre.
14. Health security: International Health Regulations (IHR) core capacity index, which is the average of attributes of 13 core capacities that have been attained. |
