Instruments for Measuring Health

Dear Colleagues,

One of the most important aspects in the assessment of health is to guarantee the quality of the measurements. Ideally, the use of accurate instruments for measuring health should positively contribute to improve the health of populations and increase the opportunities for comparability. In this sense, it is becoming increasingly obvious that more valid, comprehensive, transparent, and standardized ways of measuring and reporting on population health are necessary in clinical practice and research. For these purposes, it is essential that measurement instruments should be subjected to a process of validation to ensure and verify their accuracy.

This Special Issue will focus on describing the development and/or process of validation of instruments used for measuring health status, including general health measures, measures of physical function, pain measures, social health measures, psychological measures, quality of life measures, and specific disease measures, among others. We welcome different types of manuscript submissions, including original research articles and up-to-date reviews (systematic reviews and meta-analyses).

Dr. Desirée Valera-Gran
Dr. Eva Maria Navarrete-Munoz
Guest Editors

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