Payne S M, Strobino D M
Am J Public Health. 1984 Feb;74(2):164-6. doi: 10.2105/ajph.74.2.164.
One difficulty in estimating the target population for public health programs is identifying a current and appropriate indicator of the low-income population. Using data from Mississippi and Maryland, we determined that educational attainment of women giving birth is a feasible substitute for census data in estimating the low-income maternity population, and that vital statistics data offer several advantages for estimating the maternity services target population over census data.
估算公共卫生项目目标人群的一个困难在于确定当前且合适的低收入人群指标。利用来自密西西比州和马里兰州的数据,我们确定,生育女性的教育程度是估算低收入孕产妇人群时替代人口普查数据的一个可行指标,并且生命统计数据在估算孕产妇服务目标人群方面比人口普查数据具有若干优势。