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A Comparison of Three Health Status Indicators
International Journal of Epidemiology, 1976Interest in health status indicators has produced measures of widely varying applicability. We were interested in the use of such indices to establish mean recovery curves for groups of similar patients undergoing acute hospital treatment. A longitudinal study relating resource usage to these recovery curves had been intended but there were ...
J M, Coles +3 more
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Evaluation of Subjective Oral Health Status Indicators
Journal of Public Health Dentistry, 1994Abstract Objectives: This paper reports the results of a study to evaluate the performance of a battery of subjective oral health status indicators originally developed for use in large scale surveys of older adults. The aim was to assess their generalizability, efficiency, reliability, and validity when used in a study of adults aged 18 years and over
D Locker
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Indicators of Health Status in Adolescence
International Journal of Health Services, 1976The study reported here is based on data obtained in 1968–1970 from a representative community sample of urban black youths in the United States aged 12–17 years, inclusive. Analysis is directed at conceptual and methodological issues in measuring health status.
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Regular activities as indicators of subjective health status
International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 1986In order to measure rehabilitation effectiveness, both functional limitations and symptoms need to be assessed. The utility of activity measures as health indicators was explored by studying patterns of everyday activity in two samples, using 26 self-report items.
H R, Winefield, S M, Cormack
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Status report on maternal and child health indicators
The Journal of Perinatal & Neonatal Nursing, 1995The health of pregnant women and children has improved substantially since the 1960s. In the past decade, however, progress in preventing infant deaths, reducing the incidence of low-birth-weight infants, and ensuring first trimester prenatal care has slowed.
S R, Givens, M L, Moore
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Serum Amyloid A as an Indicator of Health Status in Falcons
Journal of Avian Medicine and Surgery, 2013Serum amyloid A (SAA) is used as an indicator of health status in many species. To investigate the possible use of SAA as a health indicator in falcons, SAA levels were measured in 259 falcons of varying species and health status. A significant increase (P < .001) in SAA concentrations was observed in falcons affected by inflammatory disease compared ...
Valentina, Caliendo +4 more
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1995
Major objective of the analyses of data presented here, was to obtain a better understanding of the information content; the information collecting, processing and documentation procedures; the information quality, reliability and stability; the quality control and maintenance procedures; the overall targets of the information
Wolfgang Morgenstern +4 more
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Major objective of the analyses of data presented here, was to obtain a better understanding of the information content; the information collecting, processing and documentation procedures; the information quality, reliability and stability; the quality control and maintenance procedures; the overall targets of the information
Wolfgang Morgenstern +4 more
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Improving dental health status indicators for evaluation
Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, 1996Abstract Central to the evaluation of any dental health programme is the dental status of the population it serves. The DMFT index has been widely used to indicate dental status in evaluations, however, there are a number of characteristics of the DMFT index which undermine its value in evaluating programmes.
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A health status indicator for the Chinese elderly in Hong Kong
International Journal of Bio-Medical Computing, 1995This paper proposes an instrument comprising of 28 questions on seven dimensions to assess the quality of life of a subpopulation. Our hierarchical model which utilizes Thurstone's Law of comparative judgment and Mckenna's modification will give a score from 0 to 100 of an individual's overall health quality.
W C, Ip, Y K, Kwan, G T, Pong, A C, Poon
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