90 Human Rights Indicators
Outcome
Process
Structural
Table 3
Child mortality and
health care
Natural and
occupational environment
Prevention, treatment and
control of diseases
Accessibility to health facilities and
essential medicines
• Time frame and coverage of
national policy on child health
and nutrition
• Time frame and coverage of national policy on physical and mental health
• Time frame and coverage of national policy for persons with disabilities
• Time frame and coverage of national policy on medicines, including list of essential medicines, measures for
generic substitution
• Infant and under-five mortality
rates*
• Proportion of underweight
children under five years of
age*
• Proportion of live births with
low birthweight
• Perinatal mortality rate
• Maternal mortality ratio*
• Prevalence of deaths, injuries,
diseases and disabilities
caused by unsafe natural and
occupational environment
• Proportion of targeted
population that was extended
access to an improved
drinking water source*
• Proportion of targeted
population that was extended
access to improved
sanitation*
• CO2 emissions per capita*
• Number of cases of
deterioration of water sources
brought to justice
• Proportion of population or
households living or working
in or near hazardous
conditions rehabilitated
• Number of prosecutions under
domestic law on natural or
workplace environment
• Proportion of driving licences
withdrawn for breaches of
road rules
• Per capita government expenditure on
primary health care and medicines
• (Improvement in) Density of medical and
paramedical personnel, hospital beds
and other primary health-care facilities
• Proportion of population that was
extended access to affordable health
care, including essential drugs,*
on a sustainable basis
• Average availability and median consumer price ratio of 30 selected essential
medicines in public and private health
facilities
• Proportion of people covered by health
insurance
• Rate of refusal of medical consultations,
by target group (discrimination testing
surveys)
• Proportion of persons with disabilities
accessing assistive devices
• Share of public expenditure on essential
medicines met through international aid
• Death rate associated with and prevalence of communicable and
non-communicable diseases (e.g., HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis*)
• Proportion of persons abusing harmful substances
• Life expectancy at birth or age 1 and health-adjusted life expectancy
• Suicide rates
• Proportion of population covered under awareness-raising
programmes on transmission
of diseases (e.g., HIV/AIDS*)
• Proportion of population
(above age 1) immunized
against vaccine-preventable
diseases
• Proportion of population
applying effective preventive
measures against diseases
(e.g., HIV/AIDS, malaria*)
• Proportion of disease cases
detected and cured
(e.g., tuberculosis*)
• Proportion of population
abusing substances, such as
drugs, chemical and psychoactive substances, brought
under specialized treatment
• Proportion of mental health
facilities inspected in the
reporting period
* MDG-related indicators
All indicators should be disaggregated by prohibited grounds of discrimination, as applicable and reflected in metadata sheets
• Proportion of schoolchildren
educated on health and
nutrition issues
• Proportion of children covered
under programme for regular
medical check-ups in the
reporting period
• Proportion of infants
exclusively breastfed during
the first 6 months
• Proportion of children covered
under public nutrition
supplement programmes
• Proportion of children
immunized against
vaccine-preventable diseases
(e.g., measles*)
• Proportion of births attended
by skilled health personnel*
• Antenatal care coverage
(at least one visit and at least
four visits)*
• Increase in proportion of
women of reproductive age
using, or whose partner is
using, contraception (CPR)*
• Unmet need for family
planning*
• Medical terminations of
pregnancy as a proportion
of live births
• Proportion of reported cases
of genital mutilation, rape
and other violence restricting
women’s sexual and
reproductive freedom
responded to effectively by
the Government
• Proportion of received complaints on the right to health investigated and adjudicated by the national human rights institution, human rights ombudsperson or other mechanisms and the
proportion of these responded to effectively by the Government
• Net official development assistance for the promotion of the health sector received or provided as a proportion of public expenditure on health or gross national income*
• Time frame and coverage
of national policy on sexual
and reproductive health
• Time frame and coverage of
national policy on abortion
and foetal sex determination
• International human rights treaties relevant to the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health (right to health) ratified by the State
• Date of entry into force and coverage of the right to health in the constitution or other forms of superior law
• Date of entry into force and coverage of domestic laws for implementing the right to health, including a law prohibiting female genital mutilation
• Number of registered and/or active NGOs (per 100,000 persons) involved in the promotion and protection of the right to health
• Estimated proportions of births, deaths and marriages recorded through vital registration systems
Sexual and
reproductive health
Illustrative indicators on the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
(Universal Declaration of Human Rights, art. 25)
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