Summary measures of population health, such as health-adjusted life expectancy, are increasingly being used to monitor the health status of regions and to evaluate public health interventions. Such measures are based on aggregated indicators of individual health and summarize health in a population. They describe population health status but have limitations in analytic studies of population he...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND In 1993, the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) published guidelines stating that automatic perioperative suspension of Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) orders conflicts with patients' rights to self-determination. Almost 20 years later, we aimed to explore both patient and doctor views concerning perioperative DNR status. METHODS Five-hundred consecutive patients vi...

BACKGROUND Health equity is considered as one of the main objectives of health care systems. This study was carried out with the aim of determining health equity indicators in Iran. Through consideration of these indicators, differences in health status of different social groups and different geographical areas can be shown in different periods and based on that, effective interventions can be...

OBJECTIVES This study compared health indicators among self-identified lesbians/bisexual women and heterosexual women residing in Los Angeles County. METHODS Respondents were English-speaking Hispanic, African American, and Asian American women. Health status, behavioral risks, access barriers, and indicators of health care were assessed. RESULTS Prevalence rates of chronic health condition...

Healthy People 2000’s Priority Area 22 is focused on the need for surveillance and data systems to measure the health status of the population and to plan, implement, describe, and evaluate public health policies and programs (1). Objective 22.1 specifically addresses the need to develop a set of health status indicators appropriate for all levels of government and establish wide use of the ind...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To identify which of seven indicators of socioeconomic status used singly or combined with one other would be most useful in studies of health inequalities in the older population. DESIGN Secondary analysis of socioeconomic and health data in a two wave survey. SETTING Great Britain. Participants were interviewed at home by a trained interviewer. PARTICIPANTS Nationally re...

AIM To investigate whether socioeconomic inequalities at a micro-scale, through their effect on major health risk factors and other health indicators, contribute to health status in an isolated island population with demonstrated reduced genetic and environmental variability. METHODS This cross-sectional study was performed in 2003 and 2004 in the adult population of the island of Vis, Croati...

OBJECTIVE Promoting mental health and preventing mental health problems are important tasks for international organizations and nations. Such goals entail the establishment of active information networks and effective systems and indicators to assess the mental health of populations. This being said, there is a need in Korea develop ways to measure the state of mental health in Korea. METHODS...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The Comprehensive Dialysis Study (CDS) aimed to understand factors contributing to physical, functional, and nutritional health status among patients starting dialysis. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS A phone interview survey was conducted with patients from a geographically stratified national random sample of dialysis units, and quarterly serum sample...