Impact on Urban Health – Urban Health Index methodology - Impact on Urban Health Social Progress Imperative

In this context, social progress is defined as the “capacity of a society to meet the basic human needs of its citizens, establish the building blocks that allow citizens and communities to enhance and sustain the quality of their lives, and create the conditions for all individuals to reach their full potential.” The Social Progress Index is built around a framework that comprises three architect. [...] The three dimensions and twelve components of the Social Progress Framework provide the backbone of the Social Progress Index. [...] These examples illustrate how building subnational indices—by preserving the 12-components structure of the Social Progress Index and by customizing the indicators to be monitored and targeted—can increase the capacity of the Social Progress Framework to boost relevant and timely policy-debates in every country at every stage of development. [...] The successes of the Global Social Progress Index have resulted in an increased demand for subnational indices to address the need for greater actionability; the need to make the index relevant for all countries at all levels of development and at any level of geography; and a need to build common languages and to align interventions. [...] Internal consistency describes the extent to which all the items in a test measure the same concept or construct and hence it is connected to the inter-relatedness of the items within the test.