Severity Setting for Human Health

Abstract

In this chapter, we consider a context of indicators for infant health on the Indonesian island of Java as studied by Ms. Yekti Widyaningsih in cooperation with the authors of this volume. This complements the foregoing material by presenting a setting wherein the indicators are intended to reflect severity of a context of concern instead of favorability. Instead of reversing ratings, we invert interpretations so that previously preferential positions become particularly problematic positions in salient scaling and preference plots. The data pertain to Java Island in 2007 at the district level, omitting Banten Province and Kepulauan District due to incompleteness of information (see Fig. 12.1).