District Health Profile

1. ESTABLISHING DISTRICT’s
BASELINE HEALTH PROFILE.
By
Dr Muhammad Arif
MSPH, Diploma in GIS & Spatial Statistics, MBBS, FELTP, Certificate in Biostatistics

2. WHAT DO WE MEAN BY “DISTRICT HEALTH PROFILE?”
• As a District lead it is one of your prime responsibilities to
collect data against certain indicators of interest & later on
base all of your interventions according to data findings.
Such collection of data on regular bases which are used for
decision making at district levels is called as “District Health
Profile”.

3. 1: SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
IN PAKISTAN POPULATION CENSUS OCCUR AFTER EVERY 10
YEARS AND ITS DATA CAN BE OBTAINED FROM
https://www.pbs.gov.pk/ .
FROM THE POPULATION CENSUS OF PAKISTAN CERTAIN
SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH CAN BE EXTRACTED

4. SUCH AS
 TOTAL POPULATION OF THE DISTRICT.
 SEX RATION OF THE DISTRICT _ (No of females/1000 males).
 AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD SIZE.
 ANNUAL POPULATION GROWTH RATES.
 POP.DENSITY PER SQ-KM.
 % OF < 05 YEARS POPULATION OUT OF TOTAL POPULATION (BOTH MALES & FEMALES)
 % OF MARRIED INDIVUALS 15 Yrs & ABOVE ( BOTH MALES & FEMALES)
 TOTAL LITERACY RATES ( BOTH MALES & FEMALES)
 TOTAL HOUSING UNITS
 TOTAL RESIDENTS RESIDING IN THOSE HOUSE HOLDS.
 % OF PEOPLE SHARING 01 or 02 ROOMS HOUSE.
 AVERAGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE DRINKING WATER FROM SPRINGS.
 AVERAGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE DRINKING WATER FROM Canals/Ponds/Rivers
 % OF HOUSE HOLD UNITS USING WOOD BURNING FOR COOKING.
 % OF HOUSE HOLD UNITS WITH NO BATH ROOMS.
 % OF HOUSE HOLD UNITS WITH NO LATERINE.
 % OF HOUSE HOLD UNITS HAVING ANY SOURCE OF COMMUNICATIONS.

5. OTHER DETAILS THAT CAN BE DERIVED AFTER KNOWING ABOUT
THE TOTAL POPULATION OF THE DISTRICT
Monthly Live Birth = 3.5% of the Total District Population
MLB = T.P/100* 3.5
 Number of annual Surviving Infants = 92.60% of the MLB
=MLB/100*92.60 x 12
 Number of annual Pregnant women = 3.57% of the T.P
Women of CBA = 18.43% of the T.P

6. OTHER INDICATORS OF DISTRICT HEALTH PROFILE

7. • 2. Percentage of Age and Gender wise Utilization of OPD (New Cases
only)
Definition This indicator shows the age-wise and gender-wise
percentage distribution of new OPD patients attending the health
facility.

56. THANKS