title: Monitoring reproductive health in Europe--what are the best indicators of reproductive health?
abstract: Setting up goals to monitor if the goals are achieved and to compare health performance over time and between regions is part of modern health care. A key part in this process is to choose the right indicators. The indicators in reproductive health should be selected on the basis of relevance and validity. They should be simple and action oriented because monitoring for the sake of monitoring alone may do more harm than good. We invite comments from the readers of Human Reproduction on a set of indicators suggested by Reprostat.
authors.affiliation: Department of Tropical Hygiene and Public Health, Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Albrecht
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jahn
authors.forename: Kitty W M
authors.initials: KW
authors.lastname: Bloemenkamp
authors.forename: Philip
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hannaford
authors.forename: Jorn
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Olsen
authors.forename: Miguel Oliveira
authors.initials: MO
authors.lastname: da Silva
authors.forename: Marleen
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Temmerman
mesh_terms: D005060:Europe; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D011159:Population Surveillance; D040442:Public Health Informatics; D012042:Registries; D012098:Reproduction; D018456:Reproductive Medicine / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends