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3 Details of the Top-Down Procedure
Pages 27-30

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... contenders based on each member's proposed indicators to inform the development of a high-level, parsimonious set. Two rounds of consolidating or collapsing similar items followed, and reduced the l ­onger list of candidates to one that represented the committee's consensus of candidate LHIs.
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... does the measure map to? o Health and Well-Being Across the Lifespan: physical, mental, social dimensions of health; access to quality public health and clinical care systems (the committee separated the latter into four sub-level concepts: access to public health system, quality of public health system, access to health care, quality of health care)
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... Thus, the working assumption was that most candidates would meet the criteria. However, related considerations (e.g., "Does this LHI meet the ‘public health burden' criterion?
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