Overview
The purpose of the Maternal, newborn, child, adolescent health, and ageing and quality of care indicator metadata toolkit: Indicator validation guide is to provide Maternal Newborn Child and Adolescent and Healthy Ageing programme managers with information to understand the basic concepts of indicator validation.
This document provides some examples of methods for research on indicator validation and testing. It also includes recommendations on the following:
- Providing information on defining, designing and conducting indicator validation studies for MNCAH and healthy ageing populations, as well as QoC indicators for these groups.
- Offering instructions on interpreting and applying available evidence to evaluate whether given indicators meet desired standards of validity.
- Highlighting the importance and value of assessing the validity of different types of indicators specific to MNCAH, healthy ageing and quality of care.
- Offering specific recommendations on methods for conducting indicator validation studies.
This document is part of Maternal, newborn, child, adolescent health and ageing and quality of care indicator metadata toolkit that has been developed to facilitate monitoring at various levels and can be found here https://platform.who.int/data/maternal-newborn-child-adolescent-ageing/indicator-toolkit/adolescent-health-indicators. The toolkit includes functionality to search for metadata information for priority indicators.