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Using Social Indicators To Assess Mental Health Needs

Lessons from a Statewide Study

Laurence T. Cagle

New York State Office of Mental Health

Social indicators were used to assess needfor acute psychiatric services in New York State. When indicators are regressed against service use rates, epidemiologically relevant indicators receive low weighting in projecting need, undermining the very purpose of using indicators in the first place. Simpler statistical techniques may be as useful as more sophisticated ones, particularly if the analyst's intent is to edify the statistically uninitiated.

Evaluation Review, Vol. 8, No. 3, 389-412 (1984)
DOI: 10.1177/0193841X8400800306
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