Issues and problems in measuring children's health status in community health research

Raymond Fink

Social Science & Medicine, 1989, vol. 29, issue 6, 715-719

Abstract: 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 sampole questionnaire items, and difficuties 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.

Keywords: child; health; community; health; research; health; programs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1989
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