Ulf Gerdtham
Professor
Income-related inequality in life-years and quality-adjusted life-years
Författare
Summary, in English
We estimate the income-related inequality in Sweden with respect to life-years and quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs). We use a large data set from Sweden with over 40,000 individuals followed up for 10-16 years, to estimate the survival and quality-adjusted survival in different income groups. For both life-years and QALYs, we discover inequalities in health favouring the higher income groups. For men (women) in the youngest age-group (20-29 years), the number of QALYs is 43.7 (45.7) in the lowest income decile and 47.2 (49.0) in the highest income decile. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V.
Avdelning/ar
- Nationalekonomiska institutionen
Publiceringsår
2000-11-01
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
1007-1026
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Journal of Health Economics
Volym
19
Issue
6
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Elsevier
Ämne
- Economics
Nyckelord
- Health inequality
- Income
- Mortality
- QALYs
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0167-6296