| Handbook
on Reproductive Health Indicators
United Nations, 2003
ST/ESCAP/2280
PREFACE
The Emerging Social Issues Division is pleased to bring
out
the publication entitled Handbook on Reproductive Health
Indicators. This is an outcome of one of several recommendations
provided by the participants attending the Workshop on Reproductive
Health Indicators and RH Indicators Database Development,
held at Seoul from 13 to 17 November 2000. The Workshop
was organized by the United Nations Economic and Social
Commission for Asia and the Pacific in collaboration with
the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, with
financial support provided by the Government of the Republic
of Korea.
The main objective of this Handbook is to provide a list
of
reproductive health indicators that are essential to assess,
monitor
and evaluate reproductive health programmes. An attempt
has been
made to provide for selected indicators simple definitions,
data
requirements, data sources, and usefulness and limitations.
It is
hoped that this Handbook will be useful for planners, policy
makers
and researchers who are involved in the implementation of
reproductive health programmes at the national and subnational
levels.
The ESCAP secretariat is thankful to Mr. A.T.P.L. Abeykoon
for his contribution in preparing this publication. Thanks
are also
due to the Government of the Republic of Korea for providing
financial support to prepare and publish the Handbook.
This publication has been issued without formal editing.
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