State of the USA Health Indicators
eBook - ePub

State of the USA Health Indicators

Letter Report

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eBook - ePub

State of the USA Health Indicators

Letter Report

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About this book

Researchers, policymakers, sociologists and doctors have long asked how to best measure the health of a nation, yet the challenge persists. The nonprofit State of the USA, Inc. (SUSA) is taking on this challenge, demonstrating how to measure the health of the United States. The organization is developing a new website intended to provide reliable and objective facts about the U.S. in a number of key areas, including health, and to provide an interactive tool with which individuals can track the progress made in each of these areas.In 2008, SUSA asked the Institute of Medicine's Committee on the State of the USA Health Indicators to provide guidance on 20 key indicators to be used on the organization's website that would be valuable in assessing health. Each indicator was required to demonstrate: a clear importance to health or health care, the availability of reliable, high quality data to measure change in the indicators over time, the potential to be measured with federally collected data, andthe capability to be broken down by geography, populations subgroups including race and ethnicity, and socioeconomic status.Taken together, the selected indicators reflect the overall health of the nation and the efficiency and efficacy of U.S. health systems. The complete list of 20 can be found in the report brief and book.

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Information

Publisher
National Academies Press
Year
2009
eBook ISBN
9780309185448
Edition
0
Topic
Medicine

Table of contents

  1. COVER PAGE
  2. THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES
  3. COMMITTEE ON THE STATE OF THE USA HEALTH INDICATORS
  4. Reviewers
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Contents
  7. Tables, Figures, and Boxes
  8. COMMITTEE CHARGE
  9. COMMITTEE PROCESS
  10. TRACKING PROGESS IN HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
  11. FRAMEWORK FOR INDICATOR DEVELOPMENT
  12. INDICATORS
  13. DISPARITIES
  14. RECOMMENDATIONS
  15. REFERENCES
  16. Appendix A Agenda
  17. Appendix B Some Current Health Indicator Reports
  18. Appendix C Domain Estimates, Reliability, and Small-Area Estimation
  19. Appendix D The Commonwealth Fund Algorithm and Coding for Preventive Services