title: Assessing the Public's Health.
abstract: Metrics are an important part of the assessment of public health. They include traditional measures of mortality and newly described summary measures to describe the disability engendered by diseases. Epidemiology has transformed the understanding of risk factors for disease; however, a holistic approach includes recognition of social determinants and the neighborhood and communities where the people most at risk reside.
authors.affiliation: Division of Neuroepidemiology, Department of Neurology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA; College of Global Public Health, New York University, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address: david.younger@nyumc.org.
authors.forename: David S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Younger
authors.affiliation: College of Global Public Health, New York University, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Joyce
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Moon-Howard
mesh_terms: D000071219:Global Burden of Disease; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D011634:Public Health; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors
keywords: Health care; Health systems; Public health