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© 1975 Oxford University Press

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The Measurement of Health—A Critical and Selective Overview

MARTIN K. CHEN1, and BERTHA E. BRYANT2

1 2 National Center for Health Services Research, Department of Health, Education and Welfare Rockville, Maryland 20852, U.S.A.

Reprint requests should be addressed to Dr. M. Chen

The need for global and individual health status indices in addition to traditional mortality and morbidity statistics is explained. A classification model for sorting various health status indices into homogeneous groups is presented to facilitate systematic review of selected health status indices. Problems for users and authors of health status indices are briefly discussed with a view to the development of more practical indices in the future.

Received 15 September 1975


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