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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

1999-01-01

Language

English

Pages

117-124

Publication/Series

Journal of Health Economics

Volume

18

Issue

1

Document type

Journal 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

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0167-6296