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Ulf Gerdtham. Photo.

Ulf Gerdtham

Professor

Ulf Gerdtham. Photo.

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

Author

  • U. G. Gerdtham
  • M. Johannesson
  • L. Lundberg
  • D. Isacson

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.

Publishing year

1999

Language

English

Pages

117-124

Publication/Series

Journal of Health Economics

Volume

18

Issue

1

Document type

Article

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Economics
  • Health Care Service and Management, Health Policy and Services and Health Economy

Keywords

  • Health inequality
  • Rating scale
  • Time trade-off
  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0167-6296