HEALTH-CARE INDICATORS

This regular feature of the journal includes a discussion of each of t he following four topics: community hospital statistics; employment, h ours, and earnings in the Private health sector; health care prices; a nd national economic indicators. These statistics are valuable in thei r own right for understanding the relationship between the health care sector and the overall economy. In addition, they allow us to anticip ate the direction and magnitude of health care cost changes Prior to t he availability of more comprehensive data.