ISO 21667:2010建立了通用健康指标概念框架，旨在为最终框架培养通用词汇和概念定义。该框架定义了描述人口健康和卫生保健系统绩效所需的适当维度和子维度，足够广泛（高水平）以适应各种卫生保健系统，并且是全面的，包含了与卫生结果和卫生系统绩效和利用率相关的所有因素，以及地区和国家差异。 ISO 21667:2010未识别或描述健康指标概念框架的单个指标或特定数据元素； 它也没有涉及需求分析、需求分析或卫生系统管理需要支持的活动范围。 基准定义和/或基准定义中使用的方法不在ISO 21667:2010的范围内。

ISO 21667:2010 establishes a common health indicators conceptual framework, and is intended to foster a common vocabulary and conceptual definitions for the resultant framework. The framework defines the appropriate dimensions and sub-dimensions required to describe the health of the population and performance of a health care system, is sufficiently broad (high-level) to accommodate a variety of health care systems, and is comprehensive, encapsulating all of the factors related to health outcomes and health system performance and utilization, as well as regional and national variations. ISO 21667:2010 does not identify or describe individual indicators or specific data elements for the health indicators conceptual framework; nor does it address needs analysis, demand analysis or the range of activities that need to be supported for health system management. The definition of benchmarks and/or approaches used in the definition of benchmarks is outside the scope of ISO 21667:2010.