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Health indicators are quantifiable characteristics of a population which researchers use as supporting evidence for describing the health of a population.Typically, researchers will use a survey methodology to gather information about a population sample, use statistics in an attempt to generalize the information collected to the entire population, and then use the statistical analysis to make ...
The Healthy Development Measurement Tool (HDMT), developed by the San Francisco Department of Public Health, provides an approach for evaluating land-use planning and urban development with regards to the achievement of human health needs. The HDMT provides a set of baseline data on community health metrics for San Francisco and development ...
The Healthy Life Years ( HLY) indicator, also known as disability-free life expectancy ( DFLE) or Sullivan's Index, is a European structural indicator computed by Eurostat. It is one of the summary measures of population health, known as health expectancies, [1] composite measures of health that combine mortality and morbidity data to represent ...
Population health has been defined as "the health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group". [1] It is an approach to health that aims to improve the health of an entire human population. It has been described as consisting of three components.
Workplace health surveillance or occupational health surveillance (U.S.) is the ongoing systematic collection, analysis, and dissemination of exposure and health data on groups of workers. [1] [2] The Joint ILO / WHO Committee on Occupational Health at its 12th Session in 1995 defined an occupational health surveillance system as "a system ...
Tone indicator. A tone indicator or tone tag is a symbol attached to a sentence or message sent in a textual form, such as over the internet, to explicitly state the intonation or intent of the message, especially when it may be otherwise ambiguous. Tone indicators start with a forward slash ( /), followed by a short series of letters, usually ...
Bioindicator. Caddisfly (order Trichoptera ), a macroinvertebrate used as an indicator of water quality. [1] A bioindicator is any species (an indicator species) or group of species whose function, population, or status can reveal the qualitative status of the environment. The most common indicator species are animals. [2]
Indicator bacteria are types of bacteria used to detect and estimate the level of fecal contamination of water. They are not dangerous to human health but are used to indicate the presence of a health risk. Each gram of human feces contains approximately ~100 billion ( 1 × 1011) bacteria. [1] These bacteria may include species of pathogenic ...