SEVENTH CONFERENCE OF HEALTH SURVEY METHODS

第七次健康调查研究方法会议， 1999年秋季，将侧重于：（a）正在进行的主要调查活动 （b）在联邦统计系统内外;（B） 正在进行的相关方法学研究对健康的潜在影响 （c）调查方法如何影响调查数据的效用 在满足那些负责 规划、提供和改善健康评估、服务， 研究国。 拟议的会议将汇集 四个主要的利益相关者群体--来自不同学科的人， 调查方法研究的前沿，负责人 主要的健康调查，那些谁使用调查数据，以发展健康 政策，以及制定这些政策的政府人员-审查 并对这一领域的调查方法的现状进行了批评， 就如何加强这些工作提出具体建议， 改善和更好地集中。 这一长期目标 会议，作为其前身，是提高卫生质量 调查数据并提高其价值。

The Seventh Conference on Health Survey Research Methods, to be held in the fall of 1999, will focus on: (a) the major survey activities ongoing both within and outside the federal statistical system; (b) the potential impact of ongoing, relevant, methodological research on health surveys; and (c) how survey methods affect the usefulness of survey data in addressing the information and policy needs of those charged with planning, delivering, and improving health assessments, services, and research to the nation. The proposed conference will bring together four key stakeholder groups--people from various disciplines who are at the forefront of survey methods research, those responsible for the major health surveys, those who use survey data to develop health policy, and those in the government who make these policies-to review and critique the current state of survey methods in this area and develop concrete recommendations for how these might be enhanced, improved and better focused. The long-range objectives of this conference, as of its predecessors, is to improve the quality of health survey data and enhance their value.