Issues and problems in measuring children's health status in community health research.
The measurement of children's health status in community surveys is hampered by both methodologic and substantive problems. These include relatively low prevalence of medical conditions among children, appropriate selection of sample questionnaire items, and difficulties in measuring health status change. There is potential value in including measures of health risk instead of, or in addition to, health status measures. This may overcome problems of low prevalence, and provide a broader base for testing the effects of program and policy changes.
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Community and Preventive Medicine, New York Medical College, Valhalla 10595.
D002648:Child; D003625:Data Collection; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D006262:Health; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000379:methods*; D006304:Health Status; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D011634:Public Health; D012307:Risk Factors; D014481:United States