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The Measurement of Health - Concepts and Indicators (Hardcover, New)
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The Measurement of Health - Concepts and Indicators (Hardcover, New)
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How can the various indicators of health, available through vital
statistics, government publications, private surveys and other
sources, be measured? This and other questions are brought to light
in James Larson's important study of concepts in the health
measurement of individuals and populations. This book is intended
to provide a backdrop for future research into determining health
care needs, while allowing for more efficient allocation of scarce
resources by planners and administrators. The first chapter defines
health by using five models, the two major ones being the medical
and the holistic. The medical model is the absence of disease and
disability, and the holistic generally defines health as physical,
mental, and social well-being. Chapters two and three discuss the
statistical measurement of mortality and morbidity (illness or
disability) by government and other agencies. International health
measurement is the focus of the fourth chapter, which includes
descriptions of World Health Organization activities in planning
for health impovements worldwide and the lack of accurate health
measurement in developing countries. Chapter five discusses United
States national health statistics gathering, while chapter six
analyzes the less sophisticated vital statistics methodologies used
at the state and local levels. In the final chapter, Larson
proposes indicators for international, national, state, and local
levels, given the best possible data for health measurement. The
Measurement of Health will be of great value to health
statisticians, scholars interested in health policy, students in
courses concerning research methods in health, health services
administrators, and health proessionals.
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