Orpana H: Validation of disability categories derived from Health Utilities Index Mark 3 scores. Health Reports

The HUI3 describes an individual’s functional health status using eight basic attributes: vision, hearing, speech, ambulation, dexterity, emotion, cognition, and pain. Each attribute has five or six levels, ranging from normal to severely limited (or the complete absence of) functioning. For example, levels on the ambulation attribute range from 1 (“able to get around the neighbourhood without difficulty, and without walking equipment) to 6 (“cannot walk at all”). A multi-attribute scoring algorithm synthesizes the descriptive informatio