Health Goals and Health Indicators - Policy, Planning, and Evaluation

List of contents

Foreword -- Introduction -- Health Planning in The United States: Where We Stand Today -- National Health Data for Policy and Planning -- Unmet Health Care Needs and Health Care Policy -- Future Directions in National Health Policy -- Readiness of Sociomedical Sciences to Measure Health Status -- The Measurement of Psychological Well-Being -- Measurement of Oral Health Status -- Methodological Perspectives on Health Status Indexes -- Health Status Indicators as Tools for Health Planning

Summary

This volume brings together the perspectives and expertise of both medical and social sciences. The major topics include criteria for the determination of health goals, the analysis of health policies, and the indicators of health status that may he used to judge the consequences of health practices and policies.

Product details

• Authors: Jack Elinson
• Assisted by: Jack Elinson (Editor), Elinson Jack (Editor), Anne Mooney (Editor), Athilia E. Siegmann (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9780367021023
• ISBN: 978-0-367-02102-3
• No. of pages: 144
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General