Health indicator

Health indicator is a metric that is used to measure health or/and welfare. There are several indicators available, for slightly different purposes.

Welfare indicator sets:

National:

• Measures of Australia’s progress
• Canadian Index of well-being
• U.S. Key National Indicators Initiative (web-based database)
• Measuring Ireland’s Progress
• UK.s Quality of Life Counts

International:

• UN: Millennium Development Goals Indicators
• Eurostat: Sustainable Development Indicators
• EU strategy for social protection and inclusion indicators (14)
• OECD Factbook -> tulossa Handbook of Measuring Progress

Single indicators:

• The Genuine Progress Indicator
• Human Development Index - Human Poverty Index
• The Measure of Economic Welfare
• Index of Sustainable Welfare
• WISP (World Index for Social Progress)
• Composite Learning Index
• Happy Planet Index
• Measure of Domestic Progress (NEF)
• Sustainable National Income (SNI)
• OECD; Handbook on Constructing Composite Indicators (2005)