Summary measures of population health : concepts, ethics, measurement, and applications / Christopher J.L. Murray [and others]
This book addresses a wide array of critical issues regarding the measurement of population health using comprehensive indices combining information on mortality and ill-health. The various uses of such summary measures of population health are described, and the appropriate measurement framework an...
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Geneva :
World Health Organization,
©2002.
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Table of Contents:
- Uses of summary measures of health
- Basic concepts
- Health expectancies
- Health gaps
- Causal decomposition
- Health state description
- Measurement of health status in population surveys
- Valuation methods
- Modelling the relations between health status domains and health state valuations
- Determinants of variance in health state valuations
- Empirical ethics
- Time and age
- Fairness.