A critical examination of summary measures of population health.

Policy and Practice A critical examination of summary measures of population health

In the past decade, interest has been rising in the development, calculation and use of summary measures of population health, which combine information on mortality and non-fatal health outcomes. This paper reviews the issues and challenges in the design and application of summary measures and presents a framework for evaluating different alternatives. Summary measures have a variety of uses, ...

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A Critical Examination of Ibn-Sina’s Theory of the Conditional Syllogism

This paper will examine Ibn Sina’s theory of the Conditional Syllogism from a purely logical point of view, and will lay bare the principles he adopted for founding his theory, and the reason why the newly introduced part of his logic remained undeveloped and eventually was removed from the texts of logic in the later Islamic tradition. As a preliminary discussion, this paper briefly examines I...

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One of the most important summary measures of population health, is Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALY), introduced for the first time in the project of Global Burden of Disease (GBD), that is the newest as well as the most accepted and familial summary measure of health and the burden of diseases has been measured by this measure at national and regional levels in many countries of the world...

Health gaps: an overview and critical appraisal

Chapter 1.2 defined two major families of summary measures of population health (SMPH): health expectancies and health gaps. In this chapter, we review the concept of health gaps, present an overview of the key conceptual and methodological issues around the construction of health gaps, and compare different types of health gaps against the desirable criteria for summary measures of population ...