COMMENTS ON HEALTH INDICATORS: METHODOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES

This paper discusses several basic conceptual and methodological problems in the development and use of health indicators. We observe that two tendencies of the health indicators movement may deter progress toward producing information useful in decision making, namely, the quest for elegant mathema...

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Published in:International journal of health services 1976-01, Vol.6 (3), p.509-520
Main Author: Bice, Thomas W.
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