OVERVIEW OF HEALTH STATUS AND HEALTH RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE MEASURES

Significant advances have been made in the development of methods for assessing health status and health related quality of life (HRQOL) over the past two decades. Much of this work has focused on: (1) defining the dimensions of health; (2) developing an array of generic and disease specific instruments; and (3) demonstrating their reliability and validity for a variety of applications including both evaluative and policy research. Only recently, however, have these measures been applied in assessing injury outcome. As the injury field increasingly focuses its attention on the prevention and treatment of non-fatal injuries and their consequences, the broader use of these measures becomes imperative. Just as we have developed standardized approaches for counting and classifying injuries, so too must we develop and broadly apply methods for monitoring their impact on the individual and society. This paper reviews several consumer-oriented measures of health status and HRQOL that are relevant to the study of injury outcomes, and cautions us to be mindful of the challenges involved in their application.

• Record URL:
  • https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/11000/11400/11433/keynote_3.htm
• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper appears in the conference proceedings, HS-809 225.
• Corporate Authors:

  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • MacKenzie, E J
• Conference:
  • Measuring the Burden of Injury: The 3rd International Conference Proceedings
  • Location: Baltimore, Maryland
  • Date: 2000-5-15 to 2000-5-16
• Publication Date: 2001-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: 9p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Health; Impacts; Injuries; Monitoring; Outcome (Medical treatment); Quality of life
• Uncontrolled Terms: Injury prevention; Injury treatment
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I84: Personal Injuries;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00941282
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: NTL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Apr 4 2003 12:00AM