Health Indicators

The Health Indicators provide concise information of the health situation and trends, including responses at national and global levels. They reflect indicators of relevance for country, regional and global reporting across the full spectrum of global health priorities. This section includes an excerpt of a country-tailored list for monitoring health status in Lebanon. This list will be a “dynamic entity”, updated periodically as more indicators are added, technologies develop and new priorities emerge. The following summary tables represent the best available country estimates of some indicators:

Health Determinants and Risks

Demographic and Socioeconomic Determinants

	Unit	2010	2011	2012	2013
Population Size	1000 citizens	3,962	4,036	4,104	4,168
Number of Registered Births	1000 citizens	91,795	97,887	90,167	86,950
Number of Registered Deaths	1000 citizens	21,441	23,257	22,792	23,414
Number of Hospital Births	1000 citizens	-	77,341	79,605	89,379

Risk Factors

	Unit	2011	2012	2013
*Low Birth Weight ( less than 2500g)*	1000 citizens	-	5957	6817
Cesarean Delivery Rate	%	46.1	47.6	46.5

Health Status

Life Expectancy and Mortality

	Unit	2012
Life expectancy at birth - Males	Year	80.27
Life expectancy at birth - Females	Year	82.11
Life expectancy at birth - Total	Year	81.24
Early neonatal mortality rate per 1000 live births		4.1
Maternal mortality ratio per 100 000 live births		18

Morbidity

Percent prevalence of chronic conditions among users of chronic drugs program*

*For previous years check the Statistical Bulletins' page

Number of newly reported HIV cases*

*For previous years check the Statistical Bulletins' page

Number of Measles cases

	2010	2011	2012	2013
Measles	11	9	9	1760

Number of Tuberculosis cases*

Tuberculosis cases	2010	2011	2012	2013
Total number of cases	515	499	630	689
Number of Lebanese cases	344	298	330	341
Number of Non-Lebanese cases	171	200	300	348

*MOPH National Tuberculosis Program

Health System Response

Health Expenditure

	Unit	2011	2012
Budget of the MOPH	Billion LBP	527.9	549.5
Per capita total expenditure on health (THE)	$US	-	751
Out-of-pocket expenditure as % of THE	Percent	-	37.34

Health Workforce

	Unit	2010	2011	2012	2013
Physicians	per 10,000 population	30.7	32	36.5	31.9
Nursing and Midwifery	per 10,000 population	23.3	27.2	29.1	33.1
Dentists	per 10,000 population	14.3	14.7	12.7	12.6
Pharmacists	per 10,000 population	14.6	15.7	18.6	16.8

Medicines and Medical devices

Density per million population of high tech equipment

Machines	N*
Open heart surgery departments	27
Cardiac catheterization laboratories	59
Kidney transplant centers	8
Bone marrow transplant units	6
Specialized burns centers	3
CT scan machines	110
MRI machines	41
PET scan	7
Dialysis machines	841

*High tech equipment in the public and private sector
*Number as provided by the Department of Projects and Programs in 2014 pertaining to the latest available figures (2012)

Service Delivery

Number of Hospitals contracted by the MOPH by Mohafazah and Type*

*For previous years check the Statistical Bulletins' page

Number of Admissions Subsidized by the MOPH by Qada*

*For previous years check the Statistical Bulletins' page

Number of In-Patients Subsidized by the MOPH by Qada and hospital type*

*For previous years check the Statistical Bulletins' page

Number of medical centers and beneficiaries per center receiving chronic drugs by Mohafaza*

*For previous years check the Statistical Bulletins' page

Service Coverage

National immunizat ion coverage rates by polio, measles and pentavalent vaccines