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Summary measures of population health : concepts, ethics, measurement and applications /
With increasing life expectancy, measuring population health levels on the basis of mortality rates alone has become less and less relevant in many populations. At the same time, societies invest substantial resources in promoting healthy life, in addition to preventing premature death. But how effe...
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Geneva :
World Health Organization,
©2002.
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- Part 1. Introduction ; Summary measures of population health in the context of the WHO framework for health system performance assessment / Christopher J.L. Murray and Julio Frenk
- A critical examination of summary measures of population health / Christopher J.L. Murray, Joshua A. Salomon and Colin D. Mathers
- The individual basis for summary measures of population health / Christopher J.L. Murray, Joshua A. Salomon and Colin D. Mathers
- Part 2. Uses of summary measures of health ; Applications of summary measures of population health / Paul J. van der Maas
- On the uses of summary measures of population health / Michael C. Wolfson
- Commentary on the uses of summary measures of population health / Matthew McKenna and James Marks
- Summary measures of population health : applications and issues in the United States / Edward Sondik
- Priority-setting in the health sector and summary measures of population health / Prasanta Mahapatra
- Part 3. Basic concepts ; Measuring the burden of disease by aggregating well-being / John Broome
- The separability of health and well-being / Dan W. Brock
- The limited moral arithmetic of health and well-being / Daniel M. Hausman
- A note on measuring well-being / James Griffin
- Fairness, goodness and levelling down / John Broome
- My goodness--and yours : a history, and some possible futures, of DALY meanings and valuation procedures / Erik Nord
- Evaluating summary measures of population health / Jeff Richardson
- An equity motivated indicator of population health / Norberto Dachs
- Levels of health and inequality in health / Michael C. Wolfson
- Part 4. Health expectancies ; Health expectancies : an overview and critical appraisal / Colin D. Mathers
- A new health expectancy classification system / Jean-Marie Robine
- Health expectancies : what can we expect from summary indicators of population health? / Eileen M. Crimmins
- Incidence and prevalence-based SMPH : making the twain meet / Jan J. Barendregt
- Part 5. Health gaps ; Health gaps : an overiew [sic] and critical appraisal / Christopher J.L. Murray, Colin D. Mathers, Joshua A. Salomon and Alan D. Lopez
- Healthy life years (HeaLYs) / Adnan A. Hyder and Richard Morrow
- Using achievable mortality reductions to define a survivorship standard for calculating mortality gaps / Kiyotaka Segami
- Shifting the goalpost : normative survivorship goals in health gap measures / Theo Vos
- Part 6. Causal decomposition ; Causal decomposition of summary measures of population health / Colin D. Mathers, Majid Ezzati, Alan D. Lopez, Christopher J.L. Murray and Anthony Rodgers
- Causality theory for policy uses of epidemiological measures / Sander Greenland
- On causal decomposition of summary measures of population health / Michael C. Wolfson
- Causality and counterfactual analysis / Daniel M. Hausman
- Part 7. Health state description ; Development of standardized health state descriptions / Ritu Sadana
- Health-status classification systems for summary measures of population health / David Feeny
- The international classification of functioning, disability and health : a common framework for describing health states / Bedirhan Üstün
- The 6D5L description system for health state valuation / Prasanta Mahapatra, Lipika Nanda and K.T. Rajshree
- Part 8. Measurement of health status in population surveys ; Comparative analyses of more than 50 household surveys on health status / Ritu Sadana, Colin D. Mathers, Alan D. Lopez, Christopher J.L. Murray and Kim Moesgaard Iburg
- The measurement and interpretation of health in social surveys / Duncan Thomas and Elizabeth Frankenberg
- New approaches to enhance cross-population comparability of survey results / Christopher J.L. Murray, Ajay Tandon, Joshua A. Salomon, Colin D. Mathers and Ritu Sadana
- Cross-population comparability of physician-assessed and self-reported measures of health / Kim Moesgaard Iburg, Joshua A. Salomon, Ajay Tandon and Christopher J.L. Murray
- Part 9. Valuation methods ; How to derive disability weights / Marie-Louise Essink-Bot and Gouke J. Bonsel
- The case against annual profiles for the valuation of disability weights / Theo Vos
- Measuring health state values in developing countries : results from a community survey in Andhra Pradesh / Prasanta Mahapatra, Joshua A. Salomon and Lipika Nanda
- Estimating health state valuations using a multiple-method protocol / Joshua A. Salomon and Christopher J.L. Murray
- Part 10. Modelling the relations between health status domains and health state valuations ; Modelling the relationship between the description and valuation of health states / Paul Dolan
- The utility approach to assessing population health / David Feeny
- Modelling health state valuation data / John Brazier, Nigel Rice and Jennifer Roberts
- Part 10. Modelling the relations between health status domains and health state valuations ; Modelling the relationship between the description and valuation of health states / Paul Dolan
- The utility approach to assessing population health / David Feeny
- Modelling health state valuation data / John Brazier, Nigel Rice and Jennifer Roberts
- Part 11. Determinants of variance in health state valuations ; Determinants of variance in health state valuations / Johannes Sommerfeld, Rob M.P.M. Baltussen, Laurien Metz, Mamadou Sanon and Rainer Sauerborn
- Are disability weights universal? Ranking of the disabling effects of different health conditions in 14 countries by different informants / Bedirhan Üstün, Juergen Rehm and Somnath Chatterji
- Measurement of variance in health state valuations in Phnom Penh, Cambodia / Ritu Sadana
- A conceptual framework for understanding adaptation, coping and adjustment in health state valuations / Joshua A. Salomon and Christopher J.L. Murray
- Part 12. Empirical ethics ; The poverty of ethical analyses in economics and the unwarranted disregard of evidence / Jeff Richardson
- The limits to empirical ethics / Daniel M. Hausman
- Issues in comparing the health of two populations / Gavin Mooney
- Empirical ethics, moral philosophy, and the democracy problem / Dan W. Brock
- Part 13. Time and age ; Accounting for time and age in summary measures of population health / Aki Tsuchiya
- Age weighting and time discounting: technical imperative versus social choice / Jeff Richardson
- Age weights and discounting in health gaps reconsidered / Christopher J.L. Murray and Arnab Acharya
- Part 14. Fairness ; Health and equity / Frances P. Kamm
- Fairness in evaluating health systems / Erik Nord
- Fairness and health / Dan W. Brock
- All goods are relevant / John Broome
- Part 15. Conclusions ; Summary measures of population health : conclusions and recommendations / Christopher J.L. Murray, Joshua A. Salomon, Colin D. Mathers and Alan D. Lopez.