The Desirable Health Indicator: A New Indicator of Population Health and Healthcare Utilisation
The DHI provides an insightful and novel tool for monitoring aspects of population health and healthcare utilisation. The DHI's coverage of important topics, derived from routine data sources, makes it a reproducible, temporally flexible, and easily understood indicator, suitable for informing policy development and addressing aspects of health inequalities. As data linkage capabilities expand internationally there are opportunities for implementation to aid comparison and better understanding of how systems perform.
Authors
- Lucy Griffiths (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9230-624X)
- Ronan Lyons
- Jane Lyons
- SL Turner
- Rhodri Johnson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9636-0753)
- Harri Doel
Institutions
- Swansea University (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- International Journal for Population Data Science
- Published
- 2026-02-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v11i1.3005
- Primary Topic
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- UK Research and Innovation
- Cardiff University
- Swansea University
- Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data
- Economic and Social Research Council