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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 …
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Heterogeneity in reporting of health by socio-economic and demographic characteristics potentially biases the … measurement of health disparities. We use anchoring vignettes to identify socio-demographic differences in the reporting of health … heterogeneity tends to reduce slightly estimated disparities in health by education (not China) and to increase those by income. But …
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, 639–664.<P> Reliance on self-rated health to proxy medical need can bias estimation of education-related inequity in … health care utilisation. We correct this bias both by instrumenting self-rated health with objective health indicators and by … purging self-rated health of reporting heterogeneity identified from health vignettes. Using data on elderly Europeans, we …
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