Country PROFILES

This page displays a sample interactive visualization and Beta version of a second-generation Vital Signs Profile (VSP) developed by the PHCPI partnership to continue helping people and countries visualize and act on primary health care data across their health system. Like all of there sources available in this PHC Digital Hub, this second-generation Vital SignsProfile was designed to more closely align with and use the recommended sources from the landmark WHO-UNICEF Primary Health Care measurement framework and indicatorsⓘ, while drawing extensively on PHCPI’s experience partnering with 30+ Trailblazer countries to develop the first generation of Vital Signs Profiles.

PREVIEW: Anatomy of a second-generation Vital Signs Profile

Use this sample interactive visualization to click and explore new features of the second-generation Vital Signs Profile (Beta version), featuring mock data from three artificial countries.
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Resources available for download:

Beta files to create a digitized second-generation Vital Signs Profile: These digital files can be used to independently create a user-generated digital second-generation Vital Signs Profile, including:

  1. an Excel file for data entry; (Download)
  2. a Beta version of the digital visualization for use with the PowerBI platform; (Download)
  3. a technical user guide for those with baseline competency in the use of PowerBI. (Download)

NOTE: Before downloading or using these files, please review the full user guidance and recommended disclaimers & attributions below.

Full methodology note for the second-generation Vital Signs Profile, detailing the approach to development, recommended indicators, and the calculations and guidelines used to calculate and display the various indices of the second-generation Vital Signs Profile. (Download)
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Background & user guidance for second-generation Vital Signs Profile (Beta products)

These Beta products for the second-generation Vital Signs Profile have been released as global public goods. While all templates and methodologies featured on this page were developed and approved by the PHCPI partnership before the initiative’s closure, it is important to note that the second-generation Vital Signs Profile was not entered into live field testing with real data during the period of partnership.

While it is anticipated that the WHO, UNICEF, and the World Bank will be exploring mechanisms to pilot and/or publish official second-generation Vital Signs Profiles on ImprovingPHC.org – using validated data from a global data repository generated from recommended PHCMFI sources, as well as novel country data collected using new PHCMFI collection tools under development atWHO – there are no other sources of official validated second-generation Vital Signs Profiles at the time of conclusion of the partnership.    

Please note: As with any Beta version of a product, it is anticipated that there maybe minor or major faults with this released version of the product
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Required disclaimers & attributions for use of Beta products

Without any modifications, as recommended by PHCPI:

Anyone outside of PHCPI’s former partner organizations who chooses to utilize these global public goods as provided to create unofficial user-generated visualizations of the second-generation Vital Signs Profile populated with user-collected or generated data – without modifying the visualization or the underlying indices and calculations – must include both of the following on any such visualization:

  1. A prominent display or watermark with the term “UNOFFICIAL” on any digital or print versions
  2. Appropriate attribution referencing PHCPI, with the following disclaimer in full: "The Primary Health Care Performance Initiative (PHCPI) was a partnership dedicated to transforming the global state of primary health care, beginning with better measurement, that concluded in 2022. While the template for the PHC Vital Signs Profile was developed by the partners of PHCPI and its partners, with the conclusion of the partnership this user-generated product is independently hosted and managed by [the hosting organization or individual] and use and availability of this product and its data is not monitored by the partnership and does not represent the official policy or position of any individual partner organization. Unlike any formal country profiles and data available at improvingphc.org, this unofficial visualization includes data that is user-generated and may not be validated, true or accurate. None of the partner organizations of the now concluded PHCPI partnership accept any responsibility whatsoever for any inaccurate or incomplete information or data that may be displayed on this user-generated profile and expressly disclaim any liability for damages as a result of its use. No PHCPI partner organization assumes any responsibility or liability for any consequence resulting directly or indirectly from any action or inaction users take based on or made in reliance on the information and data found on this user-generated visualization. All responsibility for the interpretation of the content, and any action or inaction taken based on the information made available, lies with the user."

Additionally, user-generated visualizations are not permitted to include any use of the PHCPI brand or any other partner logo except for references in the disclaimer above.
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With any user-made modifications to the visualization or underlying calculations:

The indices formulas and visualizations as provided in this beta version of the second generation PHCVital Signs Profile from PHCPI are the only visualizations and formulas approved and endorsed for use by the PHCPI partnership.  

While the PHCPI partnership strongly recommends users maintain the visualizations and indices calculations as provided in these original beta files, should a user make any modifications to the visualization itself or the underlying formulas and calculations in the tool, any user-generated visualizations must then instead include both of the following modifications:

  1. Removal of any references to the term “PHC Vital Signs Profile” in the title or elsewhere
  2. Appropriate attribution referencing it as a derivative product of PHCPI’s work, with the following disclaimer in full: "The Primary Health CarePerformance Initiative (PHCPI) was a partnership dedicated to transforming the global state of primary health care, beginning with better measurement, that concluded at the end of 2022. While developed after the conclusion of the partnership, this product is in part derivative of and inspired by the former PHCPI partnership, however, it is a product of [publishing organization or individual] and was not created by the partnership. This derivative product did not necessarily receive input from other individual PHCPI partner organizations and does not represent the official policy or position of any individual PHCPI partner organization. The PHCPI partner organizations do not accept any responsibility whatsoever for any inaccurate or incomplete information and expressly disclaim any liability for damages as a result of its use. No previous PHCPI partner organization assumes any responsibility or liability for any consequence resulting directly or indirectly from any action or inaction users take based on or made in reliance on information or data provided as part of this derivative product. All responsibility for the interpretation of the content, and any action or inaction taken based on the information made available, lies with the user."

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About the first-generation Vital Signs Profiles

PHCPI launched the first Vital Signs Profiles at the Global Conference on Primary Health Care in Astana, Kazakhstan. All first-generation or “Trailblazer” Vital Signs Profiles, featuring validated data from 30+ countries, remain available at ImprovingPHC.org, and remain important resources for understanding and acting on the state of primary health care in those countries.

Lessons from these Trailblazer Vital Signs Profiles not only helped inform the Beta design of the second-generation Vital Signs Profile above, but also deeply informed many PHCPI partner contributions to the development of the landmark WHO-UNICEF Measurement Framework and Indicators launched in 2022.

You can view allTrailblazer Vital Signs Profiles here, and read PHCPI’s joint partnership report on lessons from these Trailblazer countries here.
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ⓘ Adapted from: World Health Organization & United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). (2022). Primary health care measurement framework and indicators: monitoring health systems through a primary health care lens. World Health Organization. https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/352205. License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO
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PHCPI is a partnership dedicated to transforming the global state of primary health care, beginning with better measurement. While the content in this website represents the position of the partnership as a whole, it does not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any individual partner organization.