Population health outcome measures in (A) heart disease and appropriate admission in Barking, Dagenham and Havering; (B) diabetes mellitusC. WattsS. MeredithP. Kishore
It is increasingly recognised that population health need assessments based on the comparison of clinical or demographic end points (e.g. area mortality rates) neglect population variation in broader aspects of health status and health-related quality of life. Similarly, outcome measures which neglect...
This paper explores the association between health measures and long-term care (LTC) use in the 70+ old population. We examine how different measures of health—subjective versus objective—predict LTC use, provided either formally or informally. We consider an absolute measure of subjective healt...
We chose two poverty-sensitive health outcome measures for children from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Prevention Quality Indicators: low birthweight rate and pediatric asthma hospitalizations.16 Low birthweight rateserves as a global measure of health because past research has...
There is growing recognition that patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures - encompassing, for example, health-related quality of life - can complement traditional biomedical outcome measures (eg, survival, disease-free survival) in conve... J Lipscomb,CC Gotay,CF Snyder - 《Ca A Cancer Journal ...
The relative performance of three widely used generic health status measures (EQ-5D, a modified HUI3 [mHUI3], and SF-12) was compared within a general population sample. Data were taken from a cohort of persons identified from the patient list of a large general practice in York, UK. Tw...
Only once people became better off, when improvements in health, sanitation and nutrition were made available to a larger part of society, did world’s population start to rise rapidly. This was the beginning of our journey from 1 billion to 10 billion people, a threshold we are expected to...
Participants included 5590 community-living fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries, aged 65 years or older, from the National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS). Data analysis was conducted from February 22, 2021, to March 16, 2022. Main Outcomes and Measures Major surgeries and mortality ...
This comparative effectiveness study assesses whether the health outcomes of White US citizens living in the 1% and 5% richest counties are better than
Due to lacking of environmental concepts, peoples health has been greatly affected by air, noise and water pollution. In order to live a better life, we need a cleaner world. We should now be concerned for environment by creating a better future for our next generation. ...