Causal decomposition of summary measures of population health.

The part 6 deals with the causal decomposition of summary measures of population health. It provides the description of the construction of the summary measures for different health problems so that the planners could prioritize the resources. The causal attribution of health expectancies due to cause-specific mortality and related morbidity conditions has been described clearly. The authors have stressed that there is a need to identify principal cause of morbidity to incorporate in health information system. The second chapter has covered the epidemiological measures of causality theory which is the basic objective of the subject epidemiology. Different models given by the statisticians and epidemiologists have been well presented. The theory of cause effect has been related with actions and interventions. This is one of the most interesting sections of the book