Refining and Improving the Methodology for the National Health Security Preparedness Index
This first meeting of two newly reconstituted Working Groups for the National Health Security Preparedness Index Program examined opportunities for improving and refining the Index’s measurement, scaling, weighting, and aggregation methodologies. Methodological improvements will enhance the Index’s utility for education, planning, policy development, and quality improvement efforts focused on improving national preparedness and resiliency for large-scale health threats.
Glen P. Mays, Michael Childress, and Dominique Zephyr. “Refining and Improving the Methodology for the National Health Security Preparedness Index” National Health Security Preparedness Index Working Group Meetings on Model Design and Analytic Methodology, Sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Washington, DC. Mar. 2015.
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/glen_mays/194
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