Measuring Healthy Days: Population Assessment of Health-Related Quality of Life

This technical report, released in late 2000, describes the origins, validity, and use of a set of survey measures developed by CDC and its partners for tracking the health status of the population and health-related quality of life in states and communities.

The primary target audiences for this report are public health professionals with a current stake or potential interest in HRQOL measurement. The report identifies the policy origins of the Healthy Days measures, discusses how HRQOL differs from other health and social constructs, and summarizes several studies designed to test the reliability, validity, and responsiveness of the measures. It also describes surveillance findings to date and provides methods and population reference data from 1993–97 to assist states and others in the appropriate use and interpretation of their own Healthy Days data.