Monitoring reproductive health in Europe—what are the best indicators of reproductive health?

Authors

Marleen Temmerman, Aga Khan UniversityFollow
Albrecht Jahn, Department of Tropical Hygiene and Public Health, Heidelberg, Germany
Kitty W.M. Bloemenkamp, Department of Obstetrics, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, the Netherlands
Philip Hannaford, Department of General Practice and Primary Care, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
Jorn Olsen, Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Miguel Oliveira da Silva, Instituto de Medicina Preventiva, Lisbon Faculty of Medicine, Lisbon, Portugal and

Document Type

Article

Department

Obstetrics and Gynaecology (East Africa)

Abstract

Setting up goals to monitor if the goals are achieved and to compare health performance over time and between regions is part of modern health care. A key part in this process is to choose the right indicators. The indicators in reproductive health should be selected on the basis of relevance and validity. They should be simple and action oriented because monitoring for the sake of monitoring alone may do more harm than good. We invite comments from the readers of Human Reproduction on a set of indicators suggested by Reprostat.

Comments

This work was published before the author joined Aga Khan University.

Publication (Name of Journal)

Human Reproduction

Recommended Citation

Temmerman, M., Jahn, A., Bloemenkamp, K., Hannaford, P., Olsen, J., Oliveira da Silva, M. (2006). Monitoring reproductive health in Europe—what are the best indicators of reproductive health?. Human Reproduction, 21(9), 2199-2200.
Available at: https://ecommons.aku.edu/eastafrica_fhs_fhs/384