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In addition to the committee's own expertise and perspectives, the report draws on the workshop presentations and small-group discussion as well as on the background papers drafted for the workshop by Marthe Gold, Dennis Fryback, Norman Daniels, and Daniel Brock. The focus is on the United States, but the committee benefited from the international expertise and experience represented by participants from Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Mexico, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development as well as others who advise international groups such as the World Health Organization and He World Bank.
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and the Sickness Impact Profile (Bergner, 19811. Because such profiles do not yield a single summary number from, for example, scores representing physical or mental functioning, these measures of health status have not been combined win life expectancy measures to fom1 an integrative summary measure of population
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