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Hum. Reprod. Advance Access published online on June 3, 2006
Human Reproduction, doi:10.1093/humrep/del172
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Monitoring reproductive health in Europe--what are the best indicators of reproductive health?

Jan Albrecht 1, Kitty W.M. Bloemenkamp 2, Philip Hannaford 3, Jorn Olsen 4 *, Miguel Oliveira Da Silva 5, Marleen Temmerman 6, and on behalf of the Reprostat Steering Committee

1 Department of Tropical Hygiene and Public Health, Heidelberg, Germany
2 Department of Obstetrics, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, the Netherlands
3 Department of General Practice and Primary Care, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
4 Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, USA
5 Instituto de Medicina Preventiva, Lisbon Faculty of Medicine, Lisbon, Portugal
6 Department of Obstetrics-Gynaecology, University Hospital, Gent, Belgium

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Jorn Olsen, E-mail: jo{at}soci.au.dk


  Abstract

Setting up goals to monitor if the goals are achieved and to compare health performance over time and between regions is part of modern health care. A key part in this process is to choose the right indicators. The indicators in reproductive health should be selected on the basis of relevance and validity. They should be simple and action oriented because monitoring for the sake of monitoring alone may do more harm than good. We invite comments from the readers of Human Reproduction on a set of indicators suggested by Reprostat.

Keywords: health policy/monitoring/reproductive health.
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