The Measurement of Illness

1 June 1978

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of the Operational Research Society

Vol. 29 (6) , 529-540
https://doi.org/10.1057/jors.1978.116

Abstract

An operational objective for services which contribute to the health of a community is defined and its value estimated from available data. It is shown that data on states of illness add little information to mortality statistics at the community level. This contrasts with evidence from earlier work of the value of data on states of illness for measurement of hospital output.

Keywords

COMMUNITY LEVEL
LITTLE INFORMATION
HEALTH OF A COMMUNITY
ADD LITTLE
MORTALITY STATISTICS
HOSPITAL OUTPUT
ILLNESS ADD
VALUE ESTIMATED
ILLNESS FOR MEASUREMENT

This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: