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Global Measurement Fact Sheets
Fact Sheets
Analysis and Use of Health Facility Data
Routine health data are critically important for effective decision-making to improve the quality of health care. The WHO and UNICEF recently released guidance on the analysis and use of health facility data for maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health. This fact sheet outlines the guidance and accompanying materials, the value of these resources, and who should use them.
UNFPA’s Population Data Portal 2.0
In 2023, UNFPA released an updated version of its Population Data Portal (PDP). This fact sheet gives an overview of the PDP, its value, who should use it, and how it can be used.
Countdown to 2030 Global Measurement Update
Countdown to 2030 is a collaboration of diverse groups that tracks country, regional, and global progress toward improving women’s, children’s, and adolescents’ health. This fact sheet gives an overview of the Countdown country profiles, their value, who should use them, and how they can be used.
Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates 2023
Good nutrition during childhood is critical for optimal physical and cognitive development. The latest Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates reveal insufficient progress to reach the 2025 World Health Assembly targets and Sustainable Development Goals. This fact sheet shares an overview of estimates and their value, who should use them, and how they can be used.
Global Measurement Update: Adolescent Health Indicators
This fact sheet highlights the 47 adolescent health indicators recommended by the Global Action for Measurement of Adolescent health (GAMA) Advisory Group. It details the significance of these indicators, their intended users, and how they can enhance adolescent health measurement globally.
Global Action for Measurement of Adolescent Health (GAMA) Fact Sheet
This fact sheet shares why adolescent health is important, priority indicators for adolescent health measurement, and upcoming assessments and exercises on adolescent measurement.
Service Provision Assessment (SPA) Fact Sheet
The SPA is a health facility survey that assesses the availability and quality of care across a country. Our fact sheet shares an overview of the SPA and its value, tools used and topics assessed in the SPA, who should use the SPA, and how it should be used.
Stillbirth Country and Regional Profiles Global Measurement Update
The WHO has released country, regional, and global levels and trends in stillbirths for 195 nations to track progress toward the 2030 Every Newborn Action Plan targets. This fact sheet details the profiles, their value, who should use them, and how they can be used.
Primary Health Care (PHC) Global Measurement Update
PHC is a whole-of-society approach to health that combines multisectoral policy and action, empowered people and communities, and primary care and essential public health functions as the core of integrated health services. This fact sheet shares information on the WHO and UNICEF’s jointly released “Primary Health Care Measurement Framework and Indicators: Monitoring Health Systems through a Primary Health Care Lens” report, the value of the framework and indicators, who should use the framework, and how it can be used.
Compendium of Nutrition Intervention Coverage Indicators & Questions for Household Surveys Global Measurement Update
Decision-makers and advocates need high-quality, comparable data on the coverage of high-impact nutrition interventions to track progress towards national and global nutrition targets. This fact sheet outlines DataDENT’s Compendium of Nutrition Intervention Coverage Indicators & Questions for Household Surveys, its value, and how the compendium can be used.
Recommendations for Standardized Age Disaggregation Global Measurement Update
The Sustainable Development Goal agenda calls for increased availability of age-disaggregated data. A group of global health experts published recommendations for age disaggregated data in The Lancet Healthy Longevity. This fact sheet details the new recommendations for age-disaggregation groupings, their value, and how the groupings can be used.
Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Practices Global Measurement Update
IYCF Practices impact the health and development of children 0–23 months of age, affecting their ability to grow to their full potential. This fact sheet shares information about the WHO and UNICEF’s package of indicators and guidance on IYCF practices, its value, who should use the package, and how it can be used.
Survey, Count, Optimize, Review, and Enable (SCORE) Global Measurement Update
SCORE is a technical package of essential interventions, recommended actions, tools, and resources to support countries to address challenges in meeting health information system needs. This fact sheet details the WHO’s SCORE for Health Data Technical Package, its value, who can use SCORE, and how it can be used.
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