Measuring the public's health.

摘要: Allocation of public health resources should be based, where feasible, on objective assessments status, burden disease, injury, and disability, their preventability, related costs. In this article, we first analyze traditional measures the public's that address disease disability associated Second, discuss activities are essential to protecting but whose impact is difficult measure. Third, propose general characteristics useful health. We contend expanding repertoire a critical step in targeting attention improve health, stemming mounting care costs, slowing declining quality life threatens nation's future.