Jack Elinson - Health Goals and Health Indicators: Policy, Planning, and Evaluation

AAAS Selected Symposia Series

Edited by
Jack Elinson, Anne Mooney, and Athilia E. Siegmann

First published 1977 by Westview Press, Inc.

Published 2018

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Main entry under title:
Health goals and health indicators.
(AAAS selected symposium; 2)
Papers presented at a symposium held at the 1977 AAAS annual national meeting.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Health planning--United States--Congresses. 2. Medical policy--United States--Congresses. 3. Health status indicators--Congresses. I. Elinson, Jack. II. Mooney, Anne. III. Siegmann, Athilia E. IV. American Association for the Advancement of Science. V. Series: American Association for the Advancement of Science. AAAS selected symposium; 2.
RA395.A3H42 362.1'04'250973 77-14044
ISBN 13: 978-0-367-02102-3 (hbk)

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.

Unmet health care needs, current national health policy and local planning, health data for policy and planning, and future directions in national health policy are also examined. These issues are then considered in light of the readiness of the sociomedical sciences to measure health status. Contributors discuss the behavioral measurement of health status, the measurement of psychological well-being, the assessment of dental health needs, and the possible impact of recently developed sociomedical health indicators on health policy.

The AAAS Selected Symposia Series was begun in 1977 to provide a means for more permanently recording and more widely disseminating some of the valuable material which is discussed at the AAAS Annual National Meetings. The volumes in this Series are based on symposia held at the Meetings which address topics of current and continuing significance, both within and among the sciences, and in the areas in which science and technology impact on public policy. The Series format is designed to provide for rapid dissemination of information, so the papers are not typeset but are reproduced directly from the camera copy submitted by the authors, without copy editing. The papers are reviewed and edited by the symposia organizers who then become the editors of the various volumes. Most papers published in this Series are original contributions which have not been previously published, although in some cases additional papers from other sources have been added by an editor to provide a more comprehensive view of a particular topic. Symposia may be reports of new research or reviews of established work, particularly work of an interdisciplinary nature, since the AAAS Annual Meeting typically embraces the full range of the sciences and their societal implications.

WILLIAM D. CAREY
Executive Officer
American Association for
the Advancement of Science

Jack Elinson , professor and head of the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University , has coauthored two books, Public Image of Mental Health Services (1967) and Chronic Illness in a Rural Area (Harvard University Press, 1959) and is coeditor of Sociomedical Health Indicators (Baywood, 1977).

Anne Mooney , assistant professor in the College of Urban Affairs and Public Policy and the Department of Sociology at the University of Delaware, is the author of publications in the areas of health and social change, urbanization and human ecology.

Athilia E. Siegmann is a research assistant in the Division of Sociomedical Science at the Columbia University School of Public Health, concentrating on health economics and health status indicators. She is currently on assignment to the Bureau of Health Planning and Resources Development of HEW and is coeditor of Sociomedical Health Indicators.

Odin W. Anderson , professor of sociology and director of the Center for Health Administration Studies at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business, is the author or coauthor of five books on health care ; most recently of Two Decades of Health Services: Social Survey Trends in Use and Expenditures (Ballinger, 1976).

Marilyn Bergner is associate professor in the Department of Health Services at the University of Washington and a consultant on the development and use of local health indicators. She is currently involved in research on health status indicators, including the Sickness Impact Profile.

Thomas W. Bice is a professor in the Department of Sociology at Washington University and, specializes in health services research . He is a member of the Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association Seminar Group on Health Status Indicators.

Norman M. Bradburn is the Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor and chairman of the Department of Behavioral Sciences at the University of Chicago. He is associated with the National Opinion Research Center and is the author of numerous books, reports and articles, including The Structure of Psychological Well-Being (Aldine, 1970).

Mary Jane Budenstein , a doctoral candidate in the Department Of Sociology at Washington University, has collaborated in research on PSROs and Certificate of Need, and is currently concerned with decision theory as applied to prepaid group practice enrollment.

Harry P. Cain II is director of the Bureau of Health Planning and Resources Development at DHEW and former director of DHEWs Office of Policy Development.