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Methods and Measures
Findings
Prevalence Data
State and Community Health Profiles
Validity Studies
Resources


Cover image of Measuring Healthy Days monograph
Measuring Healthy Days monograph


Title: Health-Related Quality of Life
This page in SpanishCDC Mission:
To promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability.

In public health and in medicine, the concept of health-related quality of life refers to a person or group's perceived physical and mental health over time. Physicians have often used health-related quality of life (HRQOL) to measure the effects of chronic illness in their patients to better understand how an illness interferes with a person's day-to-day life. Similarly, public health professionals use health-related quality of life to measure the effects of numerous disorders, short- and long-term disabilities, and diseases in different populations. Tracking health-related quality of life in different populations can identify subgroups with poor physical or mental health and can help guide policies or interventions to improve their health.


Methods and Measures
This section provides information on how the CDC measures population health-related quality of life, how the summary index of unhealthy days is calculated, the Health-Related Quality-of-Life Measure, and SAS, SPSS, and SUDAAN syntax and other related information.

Findings
This section provides information on CDC key findings, disease specific findings, and adult health-related quality of life by main cause of activity limitation.

State and Community Health Profiles
This section provides links to several state and county health departments, and several private and nonprofit organizations that have used CDC's Healthy Days Measures as community health status indicators.

Validity Studies
Publications on the validity, reliability, and responsiveness of the Healthy Days questions.

HRQOL Resources
Other organizations and issues about which you should know.

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