TY - GEN AU - Murray Christopher TI - Summary Measures of population health: concepts, ethics, measurement and applications / SN - 92-4-154551-8 U1 - 312.261 PY - 2002///0000 CY - Geneva, it PB - World Health Organization KW - SUMMARY MEASURES N2 - Uses of summary measures of health.-Basic concepts.-Health expectancies.-Health gaps.-Causal decomposition.-Health state description.-Measurements of health status in population surveys.-Valuation methods.-Modelling the relations between health status domains and health state valuations.-Determinants of variance in health state valuation.-Empirical ethics.-Time and age.-Fairness.- ER -