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Chapter 58 of the book "Health Systems Performance Assessment" is presented. It examines the methods used by the World Health Organization in its health outcomes assessment survey. The contents of the household and individual questionnaires used by the WHO are cited, including health care utilization for inpatient and outpatient services and socio-demographic profile. Sampling procedures and various survey data quality indicators are discussed.

Chapter 57 of the book "Health Systems Performance Assessment" is presented. It highlights the results of the Multi-Country Survey Study of the World Health Organization, which sought to test the validity of various methods of comparable data collection for health outcome assessment. Some of the methods validated by the survey include chronic health conditions and health responsiveness modules, vignettes and sampling techniques.

The classification of mental disorders has improved greatly in the last decade of the 20th century and now provides a reliable operational tool. Both the ICD and DSM classifications have greatly facilitated practice, teaching and research by providing better delineation of the syndromes. The absence of aetiological information, linked to brain physiology that could serve as the basis of independent definitional variables, has, however, limited the understanding of mental illness and has been a stumbling block to the development of better classifications. The use of a universal classification for differing cultures has also raised concerns about a lack of sensitivity to local diversity, especially as human behaviour is not always context-free. Given these limitations, and the expectations of scientific advances in the field of genetics, neurobiology, and cultural studies, we should be able to build better classifications based on an international consensus informed by evidence-based research. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Chapter 26 of the book "Health Systems Performance Assessment" is presented. It outlines the foundations for the conceptualization, definition, description, and measurement of health that guides the work of the World Health Organization (WHO) in this area. It offers an overview of issues and historical developments in the definition of health. It also outlines a conceptual framework for quantifying levels of health for individuals and populations, and discusses important measurement challenges, including the problem of cross-population comparability.

Chapter 32 of the book "Health Systems Performance Assessment" is presented. It provides an overview of research at World Health Organization (WHO) on health state valuations in summary measures of population health. It describes a conceptual and analytical framework for health state valuations. It presents a summary of the health state valuation component of the WHO Multi-country Survey Study on Health and Responsiveness 2000-2001. It also highlights key findings from this effort.

Chapter 30 of the book "Health Systems Performance Assessment" is presented. It reports on the first widespread multi-country experience of using the anchoring vignette approach in household surveys. It explores the anchoring vignettes in the World Health Organization (WHO) Multi-country Survey Study on Health and Responsiveness (MCSS) to improve the comparability of self-responses on items measuring some of the core domains of health.