Income-Related Inequality in Life-Years and Quality-Adjusted Life-Years

Ulf-G. Gerdtham and Magnus Johannesson

No 334, SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance from Stockholm School of Economics

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Health inequality; income; mortality; QALYs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D30 I10 I12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 1999-09-28
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-hea
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (18)

Forthcoming in Journal of Health Economics.

Downloads: (external link)
http://swopec.hhs.se/hastef/papers/hastef0334.pdf.zip (application/pdf)
http://swopec.hhs.se/hastef/papers/hastef0334.pdf (application/pdf)
http://swopec.hhs.se/hastef/papers/hastef0334.ps.zip (application/postscript)
http://swopec.hhs.se/hastef/papers/hastef0334.ps (application/postscript)

Related works:
Journal Article: Income-related inequality in life-years and quality-adjusted life-years (2000)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hhs:hastef:0334

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance from Stockholm School of Economics The Economic Research Institute, Stockholm School of Economics, P.O. Box 6501, 113 83 Stockholm, Sweden. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Helena Lundin ().