Multidimensional health modeling: Association between socioeconomic and psychosocial factors and health in Latvia

Mozhaeva Irina

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: This research aims at estimating impact of socioeconomic and psychosocial factors on health outcomes in Latvia. We find empirical support for the association between psychosocial factors and health. This paper proposes new approach for modeling health. We find that concept of health is too complicated to measure effects of health determinants using a one-dimensional model. We apply two-dimensional stereotype logistic model that allows capturing nonmonotonicity in effects of latent factors and revealing significant effects that would remain unseen if single dimension models, such as ordered logit or probit, were used.

Keywords: self-assessed health; socioeconomic determinants; psychosocial factors; nonmonotonicity; stereotype logit (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C52 I10 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-10-01, Revised 2010-08-01
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