Disability components for an index of health.
Disability components for an index of health.
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健康指数的残疾成分。
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1971
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D. Sullivan
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作者：
D. Sullivan
今天的健康计划和活动包括针对致命和非致命疾病的各种公共和私人努力。另一方面，大多数被接受的对人口健康状况的综合衡量仅基于死亡率。它们很少说明活人的健康状况，因此为评估许多健康措施的必要性和成功与否提供了不充分的依据。因此，近几十年来，人们对制订反映活着人口和死亡率信息的健康综合指数很感兴趣。本系列以前的一份报告研究了确定哪些变量可用于构建此类措施的问题。报告强调需要制定与具体衡量目标相适应的指数，并侧重于制定一个更全面的美国整体健康状况变化指数这一有限的目标。为此目的，以死亡率和发病率为基础的单一指数被确定为一个潜在有用的工具。
Health programs and activities today include a great variety of public and private efforts directed toward both fatal and nonfatal conditions. Most accepted summary measures of a population's health status, on the other hand, are based on death rates alone. They tell little about the health of the living and therefore provide an in-adequate basis for assessing the need for and success of many health measures. Consequently there has been considerable interest in recent decades in the development of summary indexes of health that reflect information on the living population as well as on the level of mortality. A previous report in this series examined the problem of determining what va ~iables might be used in constructing such measures. The re-port emphasized the need to devise indexes suited to specific objectives of measurement, and it focused on the limited goal of developing a more comprehensive index of changing health status for the United States as a whole. For that purpose a single index based on both mortality and morbidity rates was identified as a potentially useful device.