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Ulf Gerdtham. Photo.

Ulf Gerdtham

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Ulf Gerdtham. Photo.

Income-related inequality in life-years and quality-adjusted life-years

Author

  • Ulf G. Gerdtham
  • Magnus Johannesson

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.

Department/s

  • Department of Economics

Publishing year

2000-11-01

Language

English

Pages

1007-1026

Publication/Series

Journal of Health Economics

Volume

19

Issue

6

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Economics

Keywords

  • Health inequality
  • Income
  • Mortality
  • QALYs

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0167-6296