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COMPARING INDICATORS OF HEALTH OR NUTRITIONAL STATUS

American Journal of Epidemiology, 1986
The performance of an indicator of health or nutritional status depends on its sensitivity and specificity properties over a range of cut-offs. Frequently, it is of interest to compare indicators to pick the best for a given purpose, such as screening for disease or monitoring to detect changes in prevalence of inadequate nutriture.
C, Brownie, J P, Habicht, B, Cogill
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Evaluation of Subjective Oral Health Status Indicators

Journal of Public Health Dentistry, 1994
Abstract 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, Y, Miller
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A Comparison of Three Health Status Indicators

International Journal of Epidemiology, 1976
Interest 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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Health Status Indicators

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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Indicators of Health Status in Adolescence

International Journal of Health Services, 1976
The 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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Improving dental health status indicators for evaluation

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, 1996
Abstract 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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