Statistical Models for Enhancing Cross-Population Comparability

作者：Ajay Tandon, Christopher J L Murray, Joshua A. Salomon · 年份：2002 · 被引用次数：53 · 研究领域：Health disparities and outcomes、Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference、Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations

Measuring the health state of individuals is important for the evaluation of health interventions, monitoring individual health progress, and as a critical step in measuring the health of populations. Self-report responses in household survey data are widely used for assessing the non-fatal health status of populations. These data typically take the form of ordered categorical (ordinal) responses. Over the past three decades, there has been great progress in developing instruments to measure the multiple domains of health that are reliable and demonstrate within population validity [31],[22].