Toward Comprehensive Health Status Measures
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2276155 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fredric D Wolinsky (0000-0002-0916-4955, American Medical Association), Marty E Zusman (Indiana University Northwest) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 607-621 |
| Publication date | 1980-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0253 • E-ISSN: 1533-8525 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1533-8525.1980.tb00639.x |
| OpenAlex | W2087084568 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 13 |
While health, itself, is the central concept in the sociology of health, little agreement exists on what constitutes an appropriate definition of health. This paper develops two composite health status measures (one continuous summary measure, and one set of eight discrete health state measures) based on the World Health Organization's conceptualization of the physical, social, and psychological dimensions of health. Data from a 1978 regional survey demonstrates the continuous summary measure's reliability (alpha = .70), and validity (factor analytic support for the hypothesized dimensions). The results also indicate that although either of the comprehensive measures significantly increase the goodness of fit of structural models of health service utilization, the set of discrete health state measures increases more the goodness of fit, bringing the explained variance of physician visits up from 16 percent to 30 percent. The magnitude of the increments clearly demonstrates the considerable utility of the comprehensive health status measurement approach
Actuarial science · Conceptualization · Data mining · Econometrics · Economics · Goodness of fit · Measure (data warehouse) · Reliability (semiconductor) · Set (abstract data type) · Statistics · Variance (accounting) · Computer Science · Health disparities and outcomes · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Mathematics · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Social Psychology
Describing Health States
A Statistical Examination of the Health Utility Index-Mark III as a Summary Measure of Health Status for a General Population Health Survey
The weighting of an international health status index
Long-Term Physical Health Consequences of Adverse Childhood Experiences
An analysis of the influence of self-assessed health on expenditure in a complete demand system
Assessing the Effects of the Physical, Psychological, and Social Dimensions of Health on the Use of Health Services
The social readjustment rating scale
Americans View Their Mental Health
Stressful Life Events
The Sociology of Health
The concept of health status
Rates of Surgical Care in Prepaid Group Practices and the Independent Setting What Are the Reasons for the Differences
The Meaning of Health
The Validation of a Function Status Index
Components and Correlates of Mental Well-Being
A Social Indicator of Access to Medical Care
Toward an Operational Definition of Health
Assessing the Effects of Predisposing, Enabling, and Illness-Morbidity Characteristics on Health Service Utilization
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 1982 - 2015 (34) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |