Tracking Healthy Days — A Window on the Health of Older Adults
In collaboration with its partners in the public health and aging services communities, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Health Care and Aging Studies Branch has developed and validated a brief set of health-related quality of life (CDC HRQOL) measures for tracking the perceived...
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| author | David G. Moriarty Rosemarie Kobau, MPH Matthew M. Zack, MD, MPH Hatice S. Zahran, MD, MPH |
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| description | In collaboration with its partners in the public health and aging services communities, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Health Care and Aging Studies Branch has developed and validated a brief set of health-related quality of life (CDC HRQOL) measures for tracking the perceived physical and mental health of adults over time. For the past 12 years, these measures — also called the Healthy Days measures — have been used in an expanding set of population health surveys, surveillance systems, performance report cards, and evaluation studies, and they have provided useful disease and disability burden data to inform decision making and provide new insights for prevention research. Although now used continuously to assess health-related quality of life for Americans aged 12 years and older, the measures and population data have been especially valuable in applications affecting older adults, for which health-related quality of life is an outcome of primary importance. The CDC HRQOL measures are recommended to public health and social service professionals as a feasible way to assess perceived physical and mental health needs of older adults and to document the effects of policies and interventions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-63f0d9b5891348a4a663f387f754e2d62023-12-02T13:10:00ZengCenters for Disease Control and PreventionPreventing Chronic Disease1545-11512005-07-0123Tracking Healthy Days — A Window on the Health of Older AdultsDavid G. MoriartyRosemarie Kobau, MPHMatthew M. Zack, MD, MPHHatice S. Zahran, MD, MPHIn collaboration with its partners in the public health and aging services communities, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Health Care and Aging Studies Branch has developed and validated a brief set of health-related quality of life (CDC HRQOL) measures for tracking the perceived physical and mental health of adults over time. For the past 12 years, these measures — also called the Healthy Days measures — have been used in an expanding set of population health surveys, surveillance systems, performance report cards, and evaluation studies, and they have provided useful disease and disability burden data to inform decision making and provide new insights for prevention research. Although now used continuously to assess health-related quality of life for Americans aged 12 years and older, the measures and population data have been especially valuable in applications affecting older adults, for which health-related quality of life is an outcome of primary importance. The CDC HRQOL measures are recommended to public health and social service professionals as a feasible way to assess perceived physical and mental health needs of older adults and to document the effects of policies and interventions.http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2005/jul/05_0023.htm#topchronic diseasepreventionpublic healtholder adultselderly |
| spellingShingle | David G. Moriarty Rosemarie Kobau, MPH Matthew M. Zack, MD, MPH Hatice S. Zahran, MD, MPH Tracking Healthy Days — A Window on the Health of Older Adults Preventing Chronic Disease chronic disease prevention public health older adults elderly |
| title | Tracking Healthy Days — A Window on the Health of Older Adults |
| title_full | Tracking Healthy Days — A Window on the Health of Older Adults |
| title_fullStr | Tracking Healthy Days — A Window on the Health of Older Adults |
| title_full_unstemmed | Tracking Healthy Days — A Window on the Health of Older Adults |
| title_short | Tracking Healthy Days — A Window on the Health of Older Adults |
| title_sort | tracking healthy days a window on the health of older adults |
| topic | chronic disease prevention public health older adults elderly |
| url | http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2005/jul/05_0023.htm#top |
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