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Review

Summarizing Population Health: Directions for the Development and Application of Population Metrics

Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on Summary Measures of Population Health
Marilyn J. Field, Marthe R. Gold
, editors.
Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 1998.
Review

Summarizing Population Health: Directions for the Development and Application of Population Metrics

Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on Summary Measures of Population Health.

Excerpt

This report from an Institute of Medicine (IOM) committee is intended to encourage methodologists, ethicists, and policymakers to learn from each other and to work together to identify the strengths, limitations, and appropriate uses of summary measures. In addition to the committee's own expertise and experience, the report builds on discussions during a December 1997 workshop and the background papers (see appendixes) drafted for the workshop. The conclusions and recommendations that follow, each of which is discussed in more detail in subsequent sections of this report, describe directions for work to strengthen the credibility and utility of summary measures of population health.

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