10 best resources for … measuring population health

Abstract

Health information – a key ingredient in policy formation and programme planning – has often proven to be a scarce commodity in places where it is needed most. Beginning in 1978 with the declaration of the Alma Ata Conference on ‘Health for All by the Year 2000’, international momentum to monitor the performance of health programmes and hold governments accountable for progress in improving health has grown. Stimulated now by the need to measure national progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals and by the growing number of international initiatives such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, and the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, a new lens is being focused on population health information.