Socio - Medical Health Indicators

Book : Socio - Medical Health Indicators

Author : * Athilia E. Siegmann * Jack Elinson

Language : English

Library : Social Phsician

Publish Place : New York

ISBN : 0-89503-013-6

Publish Date : 00 1979

Publisher : Baywood Publishing Company,Inc.

Book Type : Book

Book Number : 3238

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword Odin Anderson
Preface David Mechanic
PART 1:Social and Behavioral Criteria
Introduction to the Theme: Sociomedical
Health Indicators Jack Elinson
Chapter
1 The Sickness Impact Profile: Conceptual Formulation
and Methodology for the Development of a Health Status Measure
Marilyn Bergner and Ruth A. Bobbin with Shirley Kressel,
William E. Pollard, Betty S. Gilson, and
Joanne R. Morris
2 Unmet Needs as Sociomedical Indicators
Willine Carr and Samuel Wolfe
3 Propositions on Social Disability
Joseph Greenblum
4 Evaluation of Health Care Quality by Consumers
Howard R. Kelman
5 Constructing Social Metrics for Health Status Indexes
Donald L. Patrick
PART 2: Measures Related to Life Stage
6 Reproductive Efficiency as a Social Indicator
Charlotte Muller, Frederick S. Jaffe, and Mary Grace Kovar
7 Indicators of Health Status in Adolescence
Ann F. Brunswick
8 A Measure of Primary Sociobiological Functions
Sidney Katz and C. Amechi Akpom
PART 3: Some Applications of Sociomedical Health Indicators
9 Health Indexes Sensitive to Medical Care Variation
Carlos J. M. Martini, G. J. Boris Allan, Jan Davison,
and E. Maurice Backett
PART 4: Sociodental Indicators
10 Toward The Formulation of Sociodental Indicators
Lois K. Cohen and John D. Jago
PARTS:Perspectives
11 Comments on Health Indicators: Methodological
Perspectives
Thomas W. Bice
12 A Classification of Sociomedical Health Indicators:
Perspectives for Health Administrators and Health Planners
Athilia E. Siegmann Contributors