A healthy bottom line: Healthy life expectancy as an outcome measure for health improvement efforts

Milbank Quarterly

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 30-53

  Stiefel, Matthew C ^a   Perla, Rocco J ^a   Zell, Bonnie L ^a  

^a Care and Service Quality   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiologic measurement; Health promotion; Life expectancy; Population surveillance

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY CARE; ETHICAL DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DATABASES AS TOPIC; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MORTALITY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77949877266     PISSN: 0887378X     EISSN: 14680009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0009.2010.00588.x     Document Type: Review

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