TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2000//
TI  - The construction of community indexes of mental health and social and mental well-being and their application to New York City
JO  - Evaluation and program planning
A1  - Siegel, Carole
A1  - Laska, Eugene
A1  - Haugland, Gary
A1  - O'Neill, Dave
A1  - Cohen, Neal
A1  - Lesser, Michael
SP  - 315
EP  - 327
VL  - 23
IS  - 3
N2  - The paper provides a rationale and the development steps for construction of community level measures of the "well-being" of persons with mental illness and the "social and mental well-being" of a community as a whole. Both indexes are based on a conceptual model that links mental health outcomes to domains of influence of socio-economic conditions, needs, and supports. Factors are given that describe each domain and a method is suggested to select and assign importance weights to indicators that describe the factors. A mathematical methodology is provided to combine the selected indicators into a single index value. The aggregation rule is based on desirable principles of an index, on aggregated domain values and on input/output ratios that link domains: needs to socio-economic conditions, supports to needs and outcomes to supports. The application of the method to New York City is described. For each index, its values, domain values and input/output ratios are reported for 1991-1996<p /> 
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SN  - 0149-7189
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0149-7189(00)00017-3
ID  - ref1
ER  -