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This chapter distinguishes health indicators from indices with examples; evaluates different sources of health data; outlines the construction of summary measures of population health; discusses how diseases are defined and classified when assessing population health; explains the concepts of sensitivity and specificity of screening/diagnostic tests and how they affect the estimates of disease burden; discusses disease surveillance and the steps involved in epidemic investigations; and reviews non-western cultural concepts of disease which may affect health assessment.
Keywords: health indicator; health index; health expectancy; international classification; sensitivity; specificity; surveillance; epidemics; culture
Chapter. 18855 words. Illustrated.
Subjects: Public Health and Epidemiology
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