List of WHO indicators
Saturday 4th February 2012
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WHO Core Set of Environmental Health Indicators:
- Air Quality
- Kilometres driven per transport mode per person
- Consumption of fuel by type from road transport
- Consumption of leaded gasoline
- Emissions of air pollutants
- Ambient concentrations of air pollutants (urban): population-based exposure
- Infant mortality due to respiratory diseases
- Mortality due to respiratory diseases, all ages
- Mortality due to diseases of the circulatory system, all ages
- Participation in International agreements and Environmental initiatives
- Policies to reduce environmental tobacco smoke exposure
- Housing and Settlements
- Living floor area per person
- Population living in substandard housing
- Mortality due to external causes in children under 5 years of age
- Scope and application of building regulations for housing
- Land use and urban planning regulations
- Traffic Accidents
- Mortality from traffic accidents
- Rate of injuries by traffic accidents
- Noise
- Population annoyance by certain sources of noise
- Sleep disturbance by noise
- Application of regulations, restrictions and noise abatement measures
- Waste and Contaminated Lands
- Hazardous waste generation
- Contaminated land area
- Blood lead level in children
- Hazardous waste policies
- Municipal waste collection
- Radiation
- Cumulative radiation dose
- UV light index
- Incidence of skin cancer
- Topicality of permits on the use of radioactive substances
- Effective environmental monitoring of radiation activity
- Water and Sanitation
- Waste water treatment coverage
- Exceedance of recreational water limit values for microbiological parameters
- Exceedance of WHO drinking water guidelines for microbiological parameters
- Exceedance of WHO drinking water guidelines for chemical parameters
- Access to drinking water complying with WHO guideline values
- Access to safe drinking water
- Supply from public water supplies
- Access to adequate sanitation
- Outbreaks of water-borne diseases
- Diarrhoea mortality in children
- Food Safety
- Monitoring chemical hazards in food: potential exposure
- Food-borne illness
- Chemical Emergencies
- Sites containing large quantities of chemicals
- Mortality from chemical incidents
- Regulatory requirements for land-use planning
- Chemical incidents register
- Poison centre service
- Medical treatment guidelines
- Government preparedness
- Workplace
- Occupational fatality rate
- Rates of injuries
- Standardised mortality ratio (SMR) by occupation
- Sickness absence rate
- Statutory reports of occupational diseases
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Extended Set of Environmental Health Indicators:
- Air Quality
- Emissions of Pb, primary PM10, NOx and benzene in urban areas
- Number of hospital admissions for respiratory diseases
- Number of hospital admissions for asthma
- Number of hospital admissions for diseases of the circulatory system
- Disability adjusted life years due to morbidity and mortality as a result of ambient air pollution
- Investments in transport infrastructure
- Indoor Air
- Proportion of residences having a moisture problem, visible mould or mould odour
- Proportion of residences exceeding indoor air radon concentration of 200 Bq/m³
- Consumption of tobacco products
- Sources of indoor air pollution
- Capability to implement indoor air quality (IAQ) management
- Housing & Settlements
- Percentage of the population that have no permanent domicile (homelessness)
- Incidence of asthma incl. LRI in children
- Traffic Accidents
- Quality of traffic control
- Noise
- Noise levels distribution
- Number of people exposed to noise levels above standard (L day/evening/night)
- in noise-levels categories
- Number of people at working place exposed to noise levels (8 hr) > 80 dB(A)
- Waste & Contaminated Lands
- Amount of hazardous waste disposed and exported
- Existence of a register for contaminated lands
- Recreational Water
- Proportion of coastal or freshwater bathing sites with restrictions for recreational use
- Drowning accidents
- Capability of management of enclosed water generally available for bathing
- Intensity of water quality monitoring
- Level of management response to pollution incidents
- Drinking Water
- Mean and percentile concentrations of selected chemical contaminants
- Percentage of the population receiving piped water at home
- Number of discontinuities of public drinking water supply for > than 12 hrs
- Number of cases of proven water-borne diseases
- Intensity of water quality monitoring
- Capability for water resources quality management
- Good practice to drinking water management
- Food Safety
- Incidence of human zoonoses
- Dioxins and PCBs levels in human milk
- Incidence of animal zoonoses
- Rate of official food control
- Progress in implementation of HACCP system
- Population awareness of food safety rules in households
- Chemical emergencies
- Number of chemical incidents
- Exposure to chemical(s) from chemical incidents
- Incidence of people hospitalised because of chemical incidents
- Communication with the public
- Work place
- Self-reported work-related illness
- Voluntary reporting systems
- Good occupational services coverage
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