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Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) — Information, Questionnaires & State data

Spanish translation of CDC's Healthy Days Measures

Disability and Health

National Arthritis Action Plan (PDF-1,248K)

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) — Stress...At Work


Other Federal Government Resources

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

Outcomes & Effectiveness
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Mental Health
Measuring Healthcare Quality

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)

Medicare Health Outcomes Survey (HOS)
The HOS is a health outcomes measure in the Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS®).

2003 Medicare Health Outcomes Survey Instrument
Includes the SF–36 measure as well as the core Healthy Days Measures.

Healthy People 2010 Homepage

A Systematic Approach to Health Improvement
Goal #1 Section HRQOL

The National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics


Non-Government Resources

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Administration on Aging's Performance Outcomes Measures Project (POMP) Emotional Well-being Survey
Uses Healthy Days to measure depression, anxiety, sleeplessness, and vitality—plus a categorical measure on overall self-rated mental health.

American Association of Retired Persons. Reforming the Health Care System-State Profiles 2001

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)

A Portrait of the Chronically Ill in America, 2001

Foundation for Accountability (FACCT) Quality Measures
Includes links to several FACCT and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Surveys that include the core Healthy Days Measures, i.e.

Diabetes Survey (PDF)

To receive e-mail updates about these measures, register at FACCT User Registration

International Society for Quality of Life Research (ISOQOL)

International Society for Quality of Life Studies (ISQOLS)

MAPI Research Institute

MAPI QOLI Database
View the public domain section of the via the site’s main page. Has information about a large number of HRQOL measures-including the CDC HRQOL.

International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research

International Network on Health Expectancy and the Disability Process (REVES)

International Health Related Quality of Life Databases Programme

World Health Organization (WHO)

WHO Behavioural Risk Factor Surveillance Program

WHO Mega Country Health Promotion Network Surveillance Guide

National Academy Press
http://www.nap.edu

Health Performance Measurement in the Public Sector: Principles and Policies for Implementing an Information Network 1999

New Horizons in Health: An Integrative Approach (2001)

New Horizons in Health: An Integrative Approach (2001) Chapter 6: Collective Properties and Healthy Communities
http://books.nap.edu/books/0309072964/html/91.html

National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)

Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP)

The Protocol for Assessing Community Excellence in Environmental Health (PACE EH)
http://www.naccho.org/GENERAL261.cfm
A community-based environmental health assessment with a sample community survey that includes the core Healthy Days Measures
Appendix E. http://www.naccho.org/files/other/part5.pdf.

Public Health Foundation
http://www.phf.org/index.htm

Community Health Status Indicators (CHSI) project
http://www.phf.org/data-infra.htm

Quality of Life
http://www.ama-assn.org/public/journals/patient/archive/jpg121802.htm
JAMA (Patient Pages); 288(23) (December 18, 2002)

Quality of Life Research Unit, University of Toronto

Social Indicators Network News (SINET)

Association of State and Territorial Directors of Health Promotion and Public Health Education (ASTDHPPHE)

Community Indicators: Measuring Our Impact

Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE)

Chronic Disease Indicators (CDI)
Revised 2003 version will include the core Healthy Days Measures as overarching CDIs


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