Using Social Indicators To Assess Mental Health Needs
- 1 June 1984
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Evaluation Review
- Vol. 8 (3) , 389-412
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0193841x8400800306
Abstract
Social indicators were used to assess needfor acute psychiatric services in New York State. When indicators are regressed against service use rates, epidemiologically relevant indicators receive low weighting in projecting need, undermining the very purpose of using indicators in the first place. Simpler statistical techniques may be as useful as more sophisticated ones, particularly if the analyst's intent is to edify the statistically uninitiated.Keywords
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