Publications—Topic Based

HRQOL Surveillance

Report Cards/Health Indicators

Bigbee JL. Relationships between nurse- and physician-to-population ratios and state health rankings. Public Health Nurs 2008;25(3):244-52. abstract

Booske BC, Kempf AM, Athens JK, Kindig DA, Remington PL. Health of Wisconsin Report Card. University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, 2007. html

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Health Services Advisory Group. Medicare Health Outcomes Survey: 2004-2006 Cohort 7 Performance Measurement Report. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 2007 (Aug):1–42. pdf [1.6Mb]

Health Services Advisory Group. Medicare health outcomes survey: cohort 9 baseline data user’s guide. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 2007 (Oct):1-42. pdf [333KB]

Mark TL, Shern DL, Bagalman JE, Cao Z. Ranking America's mental health: an analysis of depression across the states. Mental Health America 2007 (December 11):1–46. html pdf [278KB]

Davies AM. The meaning of health distorted and trivialized (letter). Lancet 2005;365:571–572.

Wisdom JP, Berlin M, Lapidus JA. Relating health policy to women's health outcomes. Soc Sci Med 2005;61(8):1776–1784. abstract

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists; Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program Directors. Indicators for chronic disease surveillance. MMWR Recomm Rep 2004;53(RR–11):1–6. abstract html pdf [600K]

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Health-Related Quality of Life, Part II — State and Local Applications [Internet]. Chronic Disease Notes and Reports 2004;16:1-48. pdf [1.2M]

Hagerty MR, Cummins RA, Ferriss AL, Land K, Michalos AC, Peterson M, Sharpe A, Sirgy J, Vogel J. Quality of life indexes for national policy: review and agenda for research. Social Indicators Research 2001;55(1):1–96. See http://www.springerlink.com/content/n7471210211g1020/

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Community indicators of health-related quality of life—United States, 1993–1997. MMWR 2000;49(13):281–285. abstract html pdf [283K]

Durch JS, Bailey LA, Stoto MA (Eds); Committee on Using Performance Monitoring to Improve Community Health, Institute of Medicine. National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., 1997:1-496. html

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