Doke Prakash Prabhakarrao
Department of Community Medicine, BVDU Medical College, Satara Road, Pune, India.
Indian J Community Med. 2016 Oct-Dec;41(4):288-291. doi: 10.4103/0970-0218.193339.
Health administrators require status of health of different administrative units under them. Use of large number of indicators may create confusion and uncertainty about health status. Availability of a comprehensive index is certainly useful.
To evolve one comprehensive health index for a district as unit and measure district wise disparity.
Ten indicators from categories of health outcomes, health system, determinants of health, and utilization of services were considered. Data for districts in Maharashtra State were obtained from different sources.For each indicator the best performing district was given score of 100 and other districts were given marks proportionately.
The comprehensive index for the state was 0.52. The district scoring lowest value of 0.36 was a tribal district and scoring highest value of 0.66 was a nontribal district.
Computing such index of districts for monitoring and allocation of resources may be useful managerial tool.
卫生管理人员需要了解其下属不同行政单位的健康状况。使用大量指标可能会导致对健康状况产生混淆和不确定性。一个综合指数的可用性肯定是有用的。
以一个区为单位制定一个综合健康指数,并衡量各区之间的差异。
考虑了来自健康结果、卫生系统、健康决定因素和服务利用等类别的10个指标。马哈拉施特拉邦各区的数据来自不同来源。对于每个指标,表现最佳的区得分为100分,其他区按比例得分。
该邦的综合指数为0.52。得分最低为0.36的区是一个部落区,得分最高为0.66的区是非部落区。
计算此类地区指数以进行资源监测和分配可能是一种有用的管理工具。