Health – Regional Index

Region index for the theme Health is based on the indicators Average life expectancy women, years, average life expectancy men, years, Obesity population, percentage (%), long-term sick leave with mental illnesses and syndromes and behavioural disorders, percentage (%), prevalence of diabetes type 2, share (%), incidence of cancer, age standardised, number/100000 inv, incidence of heart attacks, age standardised 20+ years, number/100000 inv, Population 16-84 years with good or very good self-rated health, percentage (%), residents with good self-rated dental health, percentage (%), Population 16-84 years of age with impaired mental well-being, percentage (%). The KPIs are normalised so that all regions’ values are placed on a scale from 0 to 100 where 0 is the worst and 100 is best (for some indicators, inverted scale is used). In the next step, the standardised indicator values are weighed together into indices at aspect level (currently, the theme is based on indicators in three aspects). This is done with averages, all indicators weighed together with the same weight in each aspect. The values are also at this level in the range 0 to 100. Then the index at aspect level is weighed together to the thematic level according to the same principle and these values also fall between 0 and 100. The weighting is equal for all aspects of the theme.