Ulf Gerdtham
Professor
A note on validating Wagstaft and van Doorslaer's health measure in the analysis of inequalities in health
Författare
Summary, in English
The aim of this note is to validate Wagstaff and van Doorslaer's approach of constructing a continuous health measure to be used in the analysis of inequalities in health. We calculate health concentration indices for Uppsala County in Sweden based on three different health status measures: health measured according to the WvD approach based on a self-assessed categorical health measure, health measured by the rating scale method, and health measured by the time trade-off method. The concentration index does not differ significantly for the three health status measures, and our results thus support the validity of the WvD method.
Publiceringsår
1999-01-01
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
117-124
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Journal of Health Economics
Volym
18
Issue
1
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Elsevier
Ämne
- Economics
- Health Care Service and Management, Health Policy and Services and Health Economy
Nyckelord
- Health inequality
- Rating scale
- Time trade-off
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0167-6296