8th Conference on Health Survey Methods

会议赠款资金将为第八届健康调查研究方法会议提供核心支助。拟议的会议将于2003年9月举行。会议的总体目的将是继续提高健康调查数据的质量，并使这些数据对那些就健康做法和政策作出决定的人更有价值。第8次会议更直接的目的是提供一个地点和时间，让从事健康调查方法研究的人能够开会，审查最先进的调查数据收集方法，确定当今健康调查面临的主要方法问题，并为未来的方法研究确定假设和确定优先事项。这次会议将是1975年开始的一系列会议中的第八次。

Conference grant funds would provide core support for the 8th Conference on Health Survey Research Methods. The proposed conference would be held in September 2003. The general purpose of the conference will be to continue to improve health survey data quality and to make those data more valuable to those wo make decisions about health practices and policies. The more immediate purpose of the 8th Conference is to provide a place and time where those engaged in the study of health survey methodology can meet to review state-of-the-art survey data collection methods, identify major methodological problems facing health surveys today, and define hypotheses and specify priorities for future methodological research. This conference will be the eighth such conference in a series that began in 1975.