Issues in Developing Multidimensional Indices of State-level Health Inequalities: National Health Interview Survey, 2013–2015

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• Description:
  Public health report presenting methodological challenges in creating and estimating state-specific health inequalities indices using National Health Interview Survey data. Findings reveal that different index choices can significantly affect state rankings and highlight the need for careful selection of measures to reduce uncertainty in rankings. Includes tables.
• Subjects:
  Data Collection Data Interpretation, Statistical Vital Statistics
• Keywords:
  demographic and socioeconomic inequalities in health, state health metrics, composite index, health rankings, NHIS, National Health Interview Survey
• Source:
  National Health Interview Survey
• Series:
  NCHS Vital and Health Statistics Series
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Statistics ; Report
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• CIO:
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Topic:
  Health Statistics
• Pages in Document:
  63 pdf pages
• Volume:
  2
• Issue:
  180
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7a6b58630b6148dcf621f24bd1e5b74969ce427b3bdd550c4ef8ffb0e1bca2bcaab01d9a69d476c4bee64cbce0f84ef62b7cbb7d19ce4b599a369ebcdb5dc364
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/56721/cdc_56721_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.79 MB ]