On the measurement of the nation's equity adjusted health

Lars Lindholm and Måns Rosén

Health Economics, 1998, vol. 7, issue 7, 621-628

Abstract: The aim of this article is to show a method for measuring the nation's equity‐adjusted health. In order to estimate what the ‘nation's health function’ looks like, data from a survey sent to a sample of Swedish politicians were used. The results from the survey can be interpreted as a measure of inequity aversion, and this was applied to data on healthy years (HY) for males in different social groups for the period 1975–1990. The mean of healthy years increased during the period 1986–1990 by 1.09%, while equity adjusted healthy years (HYEDE) dropped by −1.78%. The nation's health has decreased in spite of the fact that the individual's health has increased. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Date: 1998
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