Summary measures of population health: conclusions and recommendations.

Abstract

We hope that this book will provide a major contribution to that debate by assembling the views and arguments of health policy-makers and experts from a wide range of disciplines including epidemiology demography health statistics health economics philosophy and ethics. In this concluding chapter we summarize the important conceptual empirical and ethical issues identified and debated by contributors and draw some conclusions and recommendations for the future evolution of summary measures of population health. (excerpt)