TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scott,Bonnie
AU  - Goldberg,George A.
AU  - Brook,Robert H.
AU  - Lohr,Kathleen N.
ED  - Rand Corporation.
ED  - United States.
TI  - Conceptualization and measurement of physiologic health for adults
T2  - Health insurance experiment series
SN  - 0833001221 (pbk.)
AV  - RA407.3 .C662 1980
PY  - 1980///
CY  - Santa Monica, CA
PB  - RAND
KW  - Anemia
KW  - United States
KW  - Chronic diseases
KW  - Statistics
KW  - Health status indicators
KW  - Health surveys
KW  - Insurance, Health
KW  - epidemiology
KW  - Chronic Disease
KW  - Adult
KW  - Health Surveys
N1  - "August 1980."; Includes bibliographical references (p. 63-67); Also available on the internet via WWW in PDF format
N2  - Anemia, defined as abnormally low levels of hemoglobin in the blood, is an important sign of underlying disease.  Data on its prevalence and adverse consequences are used in the Health Insurance Study (HIS) to investigate the effect of different levels of insurance on health status and quality of care because of its ease of diagnosis, amenability to treatment, common occurrence (especially in women), and impact on well-being.  This volume reviews pertinent medical literature, details the HIS definition of anemia, describes HIS methods for measuring its persistence and impact on people's lives, presents and discusses the enrollment data of the six HIS sites, and outlines quality-of-care criteria.  Illustrative findings include the following: Based on questionnaire data, 16 percent of HIS adults claimed to have anemia; based on blood tests, 4 percent had anemia.  Of those truly anemic, only 31 percent knew they were; of this latter subgroup, 32 percent reported ill effects (mainly worry)
UR  - http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R2262.6/
ER  -