Editors
Dmitri N. Shalin
Document Type
Report
Publication Date
2006
Publication Title
The Social Health of Nevada: Leading Indicators and Quality of Life in the Silver State
Publisher
UNLV: Center for Democratic Culture Publications
First page number:
1
Last page number:
34
Abstract
Policy makers of all ages have sought to ground their decisions in sound knowledge. As early as 1790, President George Washington told Congress that “Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. In one in which the measures of government receive their impressions so immediately from the sense of the community as in ours it is proportionably essential.” In our time, generating and disseminating reliable information has become a passion. This modern attitude is captured in buzzwords like “knowledge-based interference,” “data-informed decision making,” “information-driven needs assessment,” and it finds a powerful expression in the Leading Indicators (LI) movement that has been gathering momentum for several decades.
Keywords
Community health services; Public health--Education; Social indicators--Research
Disciplines
Sociology
Language
English
Repository Citation
Shalin, D. N.
(2006).
Introduction: The Leading Indicators Project. In Dmitri N. Shalin,
The Social Health of Nevada: Leading Indicators and Quality of Life in the Silver State
1-34.
Available at:
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/social_health_nevada_reports/2