The Global Reference List of 100 Core Health Indicators

Abstract

This document is the outcome of technical consultations of the Interagency Working Group on Indicators and Reporting Burden, established by global health agency leaders in September 2013 and chaired by the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO). The document was produced by the WHO Department of Health Statistics and Information Systems (HSI), in close collaboration with WHO technical programmes, further to a series of technical consultations and peer review by technical experts from countries and focal points from international and multilateral partners and technical reference groups: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD), Canada; European Commission; Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France; GAVI Alliance; Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany; The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; International Cooperation Agency, Japan; Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS); Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad); Rockefeller Foundation; Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden; United States Agency for International Development (USAID); United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA); United Nations International Children‘s Emergency Fund (UNICEF); Department for International Development (DFID), United Kingdom; The World Bank Group.