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A note on validating Wagstaft and van Doorslaer's health measure in the analysis of inequalities in health

Gerdtham, U. G. LU orcid ; Johannesson, M. ; Lundberg, L. LU and Isacson, D. (1999) In Journal of Health Economics 18(1). p.117-124
Abstract

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.

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Health inequality, Rating scale, Time trade-off
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Journal of Health Economics
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18
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1
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8 pages
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Elsevier
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0167-6296
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10.1016/S0167-6296(98)00041-1
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English
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