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dc.contributor.authorZiebarth, Nicolas R.en
dc.date.accessioned2009-09-03-
dc.date.accessioned2010-02-04T13:06:10Z-
dc.date.available2010-02-04T13:06:10Z-
dc.date.issued2009-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/29758-
dc.description.abstractUsing representative survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for 2006, we show that the magnitude of such health inequality measures as the concentration index (CI) depends crucially on the underlying health measure. The highest degree of inequality is found when dichotomized subjective health measures like health satisfaction or self-assessed health (SAH) are employed. Measures of medical care usage like doctor visits result in substantially lower concentration indices. Moreover, with the use of SF12, a generic health measure, the inequality indicator is reduced by a factor of ten. Scaling SAH by means of the SF12 leads to similar results to those with the pure SF12 measure. Employing generic health measures used with other populations like the Canadian HUI-III or the Finish 15D to cardinalize SAH has a significant impact on the degree of inequality measured. Finally, by contrasting the physical health component of the SF12 to the unambiguously objective grip strength measure, we provide evidence of the presence of income-related reporting heterogeneity in generic health measures.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aDeutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) |cBerlinen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aDIW Discussion Papers |x916en
dc.subject.jelD30en
dc.subject.jelD31en
dc.subject.jelD63en
dc.subject.jelI10en
dc.subject.jelI12en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordHealth measuresen
dc.subject.keywordhealth inequalityen
dc.subject.keywordSF12en
dc.subject.keywordgrip strengthen
dc.subject.keywordGerman Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP)en
dc.subject.stwGesundheiten
dc.subject.stwDisparitätsmaßen
dc.subject.stwMessungen
dc.subject.stwStatistischer Fehleren
dc.subject.stwPanelen
dc.subject.stwDeutschlanden
dc.titleMeasurement of health, the sensitivity of the concentration index, and reporting heterogeneity-
dc.type|aWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn608202908en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen
dc.identifier.repecRePEc:diw:diwwpp:dp916en

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