This section includes indicators that can measure change for the following challenges:
Population
How
can population growth and resources be brought into balance? [Challenge
3]
Health
What can the threat
of new and reemerging diseases and immune microorganisms be
reduced?[Challenge
8]
Status of Women
How can the status of
women help improve the human condition? [Challenge 11]
-- Indicators --
The suggested indicators for this challenge were:
1. Demographic measures: e.g. population growth and fertility
rates
2. Levels of urbanization and population density
3. Resources available (quantity and quality) per capita per
region
4. Per capita consumption of various resources
5. Ratio between commercial land development and effective open
land used to maintain valuable ecosystem
6. Female literacy and access by women to education, communications
and credit
7. Assessments of the effectiveness of family planning programs
8. Assessment of the adequacy of basic needs: food, shelter,
security, health
9. Per capita health measures: doctors, nurses and other health
service providers
10. Number of persons educated in programs on early childhood care
and development
11. Extent of counter-material consumption advertising
12. Number of environmental refugees and displaced persons
13. Consumption rates of tobacco and animal fats and the degenerative
diseases they promote
The indicators most highly rated as per their usefulness and availability
were:
[The numbers in parentheses represent the order number of the indicator
in the original (above) list.]
1. Demographic measures: e.g. population growth and fertility rates
(1)
2. Levels of urbanization and population density (2)
3. Per capita health measures: doctors, nurses and other health service
providers (9)
4. Female literacy and access by women to education, communications
and credit (6)
5. Resources available (quantity and quality) per capita per region
(3)
6. Per capita consumption of various resources (4)
-- Indicators --
The suggested indicators for this challenge were:
1. Frequency and intensity of new infestations/infections
2. Number of people vaccinated, by disease and geography, including
the percentage paid for by states
3. Epidemiological use of hospital records
4. Mortality rates by causes
5. Pandemic frequencies
6. Number, size, and percentage of research programs designed
to identify, deal with, and track immune microorganisms,
viruses and globally relevant diseases
7. Inventory immune strains of microorganisms and viruses
8. Analysis of disease control mechanisms by nations
9. Assessment of preventative actions and support for system
of public health
10. Extent of media coverage of this issue
11. Number of scientists and technicians employed to detect and combat
epidemics
12. Rates of use of antibiotics
13. Percentage of health budget going into preventive health and health
education
14. Life quality indicators
15. Percentage of safe good food and water, green foods and goods supply
16. Physicians and health care facilities per capita
17. Measurements of AIDS deaths and HIV prevalence
The indicators most highly rated as per their usefulness and availability
were:
[The numbers in parentheses represent the order number of the indicator
in the original (above) list.]
1. Mortality rates by causes (4)
2. Pandemic frequencies (5)
3. Number of people vaccinated, by disease and geography, including
the percentage paid for by states (2)
4. Physicians and health care facilities per capita (16)
5. Frequency and intensity of new infestations/infections (1)
6. Measurements of AIDS deaths and HIV prevalence (17)
-- Indicators --
The suggested indicators for this challenge were:
1. Rate of gender violence
2. Female literacy and access by women to education, communications
and credit
3. Women's socioeconomic status correlated with overall quality of
life level
4. Assessment of reform of inheritance rights for women
5. Assessments of the effectiveness of family planning programs
6. Ratio of women to men in various occupations and management levels
7. Comparison of pay for similar work by men and women
8. Number of women in international, national, regional, state and
local government; percent of women in policymaking and decisionmaking
9. Number of women and children in poverty
10. Percentage of women who head families
11. Assessment of family problems with young people especially
12. Assessment of age and gender related laws, safety nets, and biases
13. Number of discrimination and harassment suits
14. Number of international agreements and declarations related to
the status of women, and ratified, by countries and regions
15. Focused welfare statistics of minority groups
16. Surveys of how people feel about their own groups and minority
groups, and about their expectations
17. Comparison of school scores or achievement tests between male and
female students
18. Extent of loans and credits to women
19. Reform of inheritance rights for women
20. Assessment of progress toward Platform for Action, passed by the
UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing
1995
21. Number of NGOs related to gender justice and that promote gender,
and age group equality
22. Rate of births to adolescent mothers
Additional indicators suggested after
ratings:
23. Number of abortions conducted on female vs. male fetuses
24. Percentage of maternal mortality rates
25. Number of girls to boys who do not complete primary education
26. Assessment of women’s rights to using conception or deciding on
the number of children they wish to have.
The indicators most highly rated as per their usefulness and availability
were:
[The number in brackets represent the order number of the indicator
in the original (above) list.]
1. Female literacy and access by women to education, communications
and credit (2)
2. Number of women and children in poverty (9)
3. Assessments of the effectiveness of family planning programs (5)
4. Comparison of pay for similar work by men and women (7)
5. Number of women in international, national, regional, state and
local government; % of women in policy making and
decision making (8)
6. Ratio of women to men in various occupations and management levels
(6)
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