A note on validating Wagstaft and van Doorslaer's health measure in the analysis of inequalities in health
(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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- author
- Gerdtham, U. G. LU ; Johannesson, M. ; Lundberg, L. LU and Isacson, D.
- publishing date
- 1999-01-01
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Health inequality, Rating scale, Time trade-off
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- Journal of Health Economics
- volume
- 18
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 8 pages
- publisher
- Elsevier
- external identifiers
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- pmid:10338817
- scopus:0032589890
- ISSN
- 0167-6296
- DOI
- 10.1016/S0167-6296(98)00041-1
- language
- English
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- 4dad9cc7-0074-47ea-a9e5-0ae72a43a36b
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