Domestic Health Index - Incite at Columbia University

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    Domestic Health Index

  • Published January 1, 2019
  • Authors Peter Bearman Adam Reich Kathryn Neckerman
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  • Forum Incite Institute at Columbia University

The proliferation of wearable technology presents an unprecedented opportunity both to measure population health in new ways and to make it more culturally salient.

We envisioned what we called a “domestic health index,” or DHI, as both a promotional tool and as a valuable dataset in its own right. Between 2017 and 2019, we consulted experts and learned more about the rapidly evolving digital health space.

Domestic Health Index, 2019 Draft

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    Developing a domestic health index using data from wearable technologies. Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

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