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ON HEALTH INDICATORS AND THEIR MARGIN OF ERROR

GEORGE C. THEODORIDIS (Medical Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22901, U.S.A.)
ERNST O. ATTINGER (Medical Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22901, U.S.A.)

Kybernetes

ISSN: 0368-492X

Publication date: 1 January 1977

Abstract

Possible approaches to the formulation of health indicators and the uncertainties that should be associated with such indicators are discussed. As an illustration, two health indicators are formulated, one reflecting the degree of premature mortality in a population, and one reflecting the impact of health on the ratio between the productive and the dependent age groups in a population. Illustrative values of these indicators are computed for various countries and are compared with the corresponding values of the customary health indicators of life expectancy and infant mortality. The indication of the margin of error that should be attached to such indicators if they are to be regarded as measures of population “health” is obtained by observing the extent to which these different indicators correlate with each other when their values for various countries are considered.

Citation

THEODORIDIS, G. and ATTINGER, E. (1977), "ON HEALTH INDICATORS AND THEIR MARGIN OF ERROR", Kybernetes, Vol. 6 No. 1, pp. 39-48. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb005438

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