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 …

Disentangling age, period, and cohort effects in explaining health trends is crucial to assess future prevalences of … health disorders. The identification problem -- age, period, and cohort effects are perfectly linearly related -- is tackled … by modeling cohort and period effects using lifetime macro-indicators. This approach -- innovative in analyses on health …