Exploring the Health Status of a Population: A Simple Health State Model vs the Gompertz Model

Christos H. Skiadas ()
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Christos H. Skiadas: Technical University of Crete, ManLab

Chapter Chapter 3 in Demography and Health Issues, 2018, pp 31-39 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract We present a method to formulate the Health State or Health Status curve of a population from the Gompertz model thus providing a useful tool to demographers, actuaries, policy makers, health people and organizations and sociologists. The model is presented along with a simple first exit time model and another “Best Fit” model. A method of finding the corrected health state or health status is also presented.

Keywords: Gompertz Model; Skiadas; Exit Time Density; Human Life Table; Health Status Index (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-76002-5_3

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