A common health indicators conceptual framework can inform the selection and interpretation of meaningful health indicators. Such a framework identifies what information is required to address questions about health and health care, how these pieces fit together and the interrelationships between them. This framework is based on Canada's health indicator framework. The health indicators conceptual model is based on a population health, or determinants of health model. This framework reflects the principle, based on the supporting scientific evidence, that health is determined by a complex interaction of factors, including the social and physical environments, wellbeing, prosperity, health care, as well as genetic endowment and individual behavioural and biological response. In other words, according to the population health perspective, health is not determined solely by medical care, but by a range of individual-and population-level cultural, social and economic factors. Ref: Health informatics-Health indicators conceptual framework technical specification ISO/TS 21667 First edition 2004-04-01. |