What Can Summary Health Indicators Tell about Health Transition in Algeria?

Meryem Chinoune, ENSSEA
Farid Flici, Centre de Recherche en Economie Appliquée pour le Développement (CREAD )

Since its independence, Algeria has experienced significant improvements in terms of population health. In the last couple of decades, Algeria witnessed a health transition. Despite this fact, this process was not deeply covered in the country. Health transition is known to be strongly tied to demographic, epidemiological transition, nutrition and social transition. However, this study is designed to focus only on the demographic and epidemiological dimensions. We intend to select some summary indicators that serve as evidence about the health transition and will be used later to describe this process. Predicting whether the current stage of the health transition will persist or change in the future is the next goal. Besides, it is worth inspecting the sex differential health profile within the Algerian population. Finally, the finding will allow for identifying the similarities and differences between Algeria and the rest of the north African countries.