How to Measure Population Health: An Exploration Toward an Integration of Valid and Reliable Instruments.

ABSTRACT: Population health management initiatives are introduced to transform health and community services by implementing interventions that combine various services and address the continuum of health and well-being of populations. Insight is required into a population's health to evaluate implementation of these initiatives. This study aims to determine the performance of commonly used instruments for measuring a population's experienced health and explores the assessed concepts of population health. Survey-based Short Form 12, version 2 (SF12, health status), Patient Activation Measure 13 (PAM13), and Kessler 10 (K10, psychological distress) data of 3120 respondents was used. Floor/ceiling effects were studied using descriptive statistics. Validity was assessed using factor and discriminant an

SUBMITTER: Hendrikx RJP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6070127 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature