Human development index (HDI) is a composite development indicator comprising of life expectancy at birth from health, GDP from economy and adult literacy rate from education.
The material resources indicator is comprised of a single measure assessing the proportion of young people growing up in households with adequate financial resources, while community involvement is assessed using a combination of three measures.
To adequately quantify appropriate complementary feeding, we used a composite indicator comprising three of the WHO core IYCF indicators that relate closely to complementary feeding.
The complete list of indicators is comprised of 186 items.
These indicators comprised: evidence of an ACP, being on the Liverpool Care of the Dying Pathway, Referral to the Hospital Palliative Care Service, appropriate prescription of opioids, use of syringe driver for symptom control, presence of palliative care alert and documentation of a Palliative approach to resuscitation status in the case of respiratory or cardiac arrest.
Furthermore, a composite indicator comprising timely introduction of solid, semi-solid or soft foods at 6 months, minimum meal frequency, and minimum dietary diversity better explains weight-for-length Z-scores than each of the single indicators.
Secondly, a composite indicator comprising timely introduction of solid, semi-solid or soft foods at 6 months, minimum meal frequency, and minimum dietary diversity better explains weight-for-length Z-scores of young children in rural Northern Ghana than each of the individual indicators.
These indicators comprised the registration of risk factors (smoking status, physical activity capacity, weight or body mass index, blood pressure, and serum cholesterol), advice on physical activity, influenza vaccination, antiplatelet and statin drug therapy prescribed or offered, systolic and diastolic blood pressure below threshold (140 and 90 mmHG respectively).
We found 14 long-term large-area compilations of health indicators and determinants and seven compilations of environmental health indicators, comprising hundreds of metrics.
The reproductive indicators comprised age at first conception, number of pregnancies, number of antenatal consultations (ANC) received in the latest pregnancies, and history of previous uterine operations.
