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. 2017 Oct 16;95(5):647–661. doi: 10.1007/s11524-017-0194-6

Table 1.

Indicators included in the provisional and final versions of Urban HEART Barcelona

Urban HEART domains Provisional version Final version
Health Life expectancy Premature mortality rate
Comparative mortality ratio Tuberculosis rate
Comparative premature mortality ratio Gonococcal rate
Tuberculosis rate Teenage fecundity rate
Teenage fecundity rate Problematic drug consumption indexc
Low birth-weight prevalence
Physical environment and infrastructure Neighbourhood area allocated to urban parks and gardens (%)
Vegetation index (NDVI)d
Vehicle-km travelled
Social and human development People aged 15 years or older with primary level education or less (%) Ratio % of housing with > 4 residents per housing mean area
Over-ageing indexa Rate of people assisted by Social Services excluding those attributable to the Dependency Law
People aged 75 years or older living alone (%) Rate of people aged 17 years and younger assisted by the Child and Teenage Assistance Team
People 16 to 29 years old with primary level education or less (%)
Economics Family available income indexb Family available income indexb
Registered unemployment among people aged 16 to 64 years (%) Registered unemployment among people aged 16 to 64 years (%)
Governance Voter abstention in the previous municipal elections (%) Voter abstention in the previous municipal elections (%)

aProportion of people aged 75 years or older over the number of people aged 65 years or older

bCompound index that reflects the distribution of the neighbourhood mean family income compared to the city mean and that includes 5 indicators (people aged 25 years or more with university level education (%), registered unemployment among people aged 16 to 64 year (%), number of cars per inhabitant, new cars (less than 2 years) with more than 16 hp (%) and second-hand housing prices)

cCompound index that includes 4 indicators related to drug consumption (rate of new treatments due to drug consumption, mortality rate due to drug overdose, rate of emergency visits among drug consumers, number of syringes found on the street)

dNormalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), indicator that reflects the amount of vegetation by assessing the amount of green observed from a satellite picture