"The Index of Social Health [...] monitors the social well-being of American society. [...] The Index of Social Health is based on sixteen social indicators. These are: infant mortality, child abuse, child poverty, teenage suicide, teenage drug abuse, high school dropouts, unemployment, weekly wages, health insurance coverage, poverty among the elderly, out-of-pocket health-care costs among the elderly, homicides, alcohol-related traffic fatalities, food insecurity, affordable housing, and income inequality."
Institute for Innovation in Social Policy, http://iisp.vassar.edu/ish.html, retrieved on 12.01.2015
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Institute for Innovation in Social Policy
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Index
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- Scientific institute
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