There is a concern that ordered responses on health questions may differ acrosspopulations or even across subgroups of … a population. This reporting heterogeneity mayinvalidate group comparisons and measures of health inequality. This paper … index shift. The method is illustrated using Canadian National PopulationHealth Survey data. The McMaster Health Utility …

(including the introduction) address the general issue of the linkages between productivity and various aspects of social … between population, education, health and social divergence and productivity. In the fourth section, three papers address the …