title: Health indicators.
abstract: This paper examines the more general background to health indicators. It deals with the relation between health and social indicators, before examining the health concept. It discusses possible purposes for which health indicators should be developed, and gives some of the important data sources for this exercise. The paper contains some less traditional examples of health indicators as mainly applied in The Netherlands. Finally, it draws conclusions on the possibilities of developing health indicators.
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D005060:Europe; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008499:Medical Records; D009017:Morbidity; D009426:Netherlands; D012042:Registries; D012922:Social Change; D012939:Social Planning; D012940:Social Problems