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Part Three: indicators
Health indicators: Child Survival and Environmental Health
Child survival and environmental health activities work toward reducing
child morbidity, mortality, and disease incidence. Child health and survival
has been a focus for many large-scale international programs, including the
Millennium Development Goals, the Integrated Management of Child-
hood Illness strategy, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization,
and the Roll Back Malaria initiative.
Many communities served by PHE projects have identified child health
and survival as a priority. The indicators in this section have been chosen
to measure indicators at the input, process, output, and short- to medium-
term outcome levels rather than the long-term outcomes of disease in-
cidence and infant and child mortality. Together, these indicators cover
a broad range of environmental and child health activities. Most PHE
programs work on achieving the shorter-term outcomes in a smaller com-
munity and contribute to a larger effort in the area to improve child health.
Depending on their focus and resources, PHE programs can choose the
indicators most appropriate for their own work.
Table 7 Health indicators
Outputs
Outcomes
Number of doses of tetanus
1.
vaccine distributed
Number of insecti-
2.
cide-treated bed nets
distributed
Number of packets of oral
3.
rehydration salts distributed
Number of safe water stor-
4.
age vessels distributed
Percent of pregnant women
5.
receiving at least two doses
of tetanus toxoid vaccine
Percent of children aged 12-
6.
23 months fully immunized
before 12 months
Percent of households with
7.
access to an improved source
of drinking water
Time spent by household
8.
members to collect water
Percent of households using
9.
an improved toilet facility
Percent of households using
10.
soap in last 24 hours
Percent of households stor-
11.
ing drinking water safely
Percent of children under
12.
five years who slept under
an insecticide-treated bed
net the previous night
Oral rehydration therapy
13.
use rate