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Monitoring reproductive health in Europe--what are the best indicators of reproductive health?

Author(s) -

Albrecht Jahn

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

human reproduction

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.446

H-Index - 226

eISSN - 1460-2350

pISSN - 0268-1161

DOI - 10.1093/humrep/del172

Subject(s) - reproductive health , harm , relevance (law) , reproduction , action (physics) , health indicator , process (computing) , human reproduction , set (abstract data type) , environmental health , medicine , psychology , computer science , political science , population , biology , ecology , social psychology , physics , anatomy , quantum mechanics , law , programming language , operating system

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.

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