I am trying to locate a good index to use to represent technology advances in health care over time. I would like to be able to have U.S. state-level indicators going back at least 20 years. Ideally, the indicator should not be correlated with per-capita income - I have thought of trying mortality rates or average life expectancy, but they would tend to be correlated with income. Any ideas or actual data would be appreciated. Thanks. Bob Noland University of London Centre for Transport Studies Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering Imperial College London, SW7 2BU %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%