regarding nursing subject

1. MRS.MUTHULAKSHMI
MSC NURSING
COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING
SACRED HEART COLLEGE OF NURSING
KUMBAKONAM

2. Health indicators are the measures of health status of a
community but they also compare the health status
one country with that of another, for the assessment of
health care needs, for monitoring and evaluation of
health services,activities and health programme.

3. According to WHO “ Indicators are variable
which helps to measures changes, often they are used
particularly when these changes cannot be measured
directly, for example health or nutritional status.”

4.  They should be valid.
 They should be reliable
and objective
 They should be sensitive
 They should be specific
 They should be feasible
 They should relevant
-actual measure
-same answer in different
people & situation
-reflect the changes
correctly
-Identify true negative result
- Obtain the needed data
-understanding the
phenomena

5.  TO FIND COMMUNITY HEALTH STANDARD
 TO COMPARE HEALTH STANDARDS WITH DIFFERENT
COUNTRIES
 TO INVESTICATE THE NEED OF HEALTH SERVICES
 TO DISTRIUTE THE RESOURCES PROPERLY
 TO CONDUCT RESEARCH ON HEALTH
 TO EVALUATE THE ACTIVITIES ,PROGRAMES AND
TARGET OF HEALTH SERVICES.

6. DIRECT OR SPECIFIC
INDICATORS
INDIRECT OR GENERAL
INDICATORS
 MORTALITY INDICATORS
 MORBIDITY INDICATORS
 DISABILITY INDICATORS
 HEALTH CARE DELIVERY
INDICATORS
 HEALTH POLICY
INDICATORS
 SOCIAL AND MENTAL
INDICATORS
 SOCIOECONOMIC
INDICATORS
 NUTRITIONAL STAUS
INDICATORS
 UTILIZATION RATE
INDICATORS
 ENVIRONMENTAL
INDICATORS
 INDICATORS OF QUALITY OF
LIFE

7.  INFANT MORTALITY RATE
 MATERNAL MORTALITY RATE
 CRUDE DEATH RATE
 LIFE EXPECTANCY
 CHILD MORTALITY RATE
 DISEASE SPECIFIC MORTALITY RATE
 PROPORTIONAL MORTALITY RATE

8. Incidence and prevalence
Rate of notifying disease
Admission and
discharge rate
Occupancy rate
Attendance rate
at out patient
Absence of
school or work

9.  Disability rate refers to the inability of a person to
perform activities of daily living or the increase in
morbidity or mortality rate.it is measured by the
numbers of working days he was bedridden and the
restriction of movement and daily routine
completion

10.  DOCTOR POPULATION RATIO
 DOCTOR NURSE RATIO
 POPULATION BED RATIO
 POPULATION PER HEALTH CARE CENTRE
,SUBCENTRE
 PATIENT NURSE RATIO
 POPULATION PER TRADITIONAL BIRTH ATTENDANT

11. These are the indicators of political commitment. The
allocation of adequate resources, the actual and
proposed expenses in the budget assigned in the
health services to take care of primary health and
health related activities are the relevant health policy
indicators.

12. 1. Social and mental health indicators :
these include suicide, homicide, violence,
crime, road accident, juvenile delinquency, alcohol and
drug abuse, smoking, family violence, battered baby
and battered wife syndrome, neglected and
abandoned youth these all provide a guide to social
action for improving the health of the people.

13. 2. Socio economic indicators:
-rate increase population
-rate of unemployment
-size of the family
-literacy rate, especially female literacy rate
- place of living
-per capita income

14. 3. Nutritional status indicators
it related to the birth weight of the child, height and growth
chart of children which are the indicators of health status.
4. Utilization rate: utilization level of health service can be assessed
on the basis of ratio of vaccinated children, ratio of pregnant mother,
number of people using family planning methods, hospital occupancy
and discharge ratio.
5. Environmental indicators:
it reflect the quality of physical and biological environment in which
people are exposed to the hazarda of the polluated environment.

15. At the end of the session
-- list out indicators
----- specify the IMR,MMR