If hygiene lacks a global indicator, it will be left behind like the Cinderella of international development targets, looking on as other issues like water and sanitation (which do have global-level indicators at the moment) go to the SDG ball.
At the global level, behavioural indicators in various populations are included in the set of indicators defined to monitor commitment to the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on AIDS (UNGASS indicators) [ 33].
Different impedance values are successively assigned, their effect being estimated through a global sound level indicator.
Health expenditure is found to be significantly associated with health status indicators at the global level (see Table 5).
Neither total health expenditure nor female literacy was significantly associated with health outcome indicators at a global level (see Table 5).
This mini-survey concluded that at national level, FIC coverage could be used as a principal indicator; however, at global level DPT3 has some additional advantages across all countries in standardizing the capacity of the immunization program to deliver multiple doses of the same vaccine to all children by 12 months of age.
The software supports standard indicators, such as those used for monitoring the MDGs at the global level, yet can also be customized to fit the requirements of local indicator and monitoring frameworks at the regional or country level.
Paragraph 18 of the Sendai Framework states that: "these targets will be measured at the global level and will be complemented by work to develop appropriate indicators.
The latest taskforce report claims that "the education community has reached a consensus on the skills and competencies that are important … and a small set of indicators that are feasible and desirable to track at the global level".
Given the heterogeneity of these potential adverse outcomes, quantitative indicators are not best suited monitor these trends, particularly at the global level.
Many newborn care interventions lack standard indicator definitions and are not routinely monitored at national or global level, especially in low and middle-income countries (LMIC).
