The measurement of health disparities is a key component for the assessment of health systems. One aspect of these … integrates risk into the standard inequality measurement which measures the extent to which disparities in realized health are … disparities - which hitherto has received limited attention - is the risk people face about their future health. This paper …

all, our findings suggest that reporting tendencies are an important source of bias in the measurement of health …In spite of the well-known wide disparities in wealth and in objective measures of health like mortality in countries … like South Africa, health inequality by wealth in self-reported health measures appears to be nearly non-existent. We test …

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 …

measurement of health disparities. We use anchoring vignettes to identify socio-demographic differences in the reporting of health …Heterogeneity in reporting of health by socio-economic and demographic characteristics potentially biases the … heterogeneity tends to reduce slightly estimated disparities in health by education (not China) and to increase those by income. But …

Anchoring vignettes are increasingly used to identify and correct heterogeneity in the reporting of health, work … valid under a less stringent assumption. We apply these tests to cognitive functioning and mobility related health problems … using data from the English Longitudinal Survey of Ageing. Response consistency is rejected for both health domains …

We introduce a measure of population health that is sensitive to dispersion in both agespecific health and lifespan …. The measure generalises health-adjusted life expectancy without requiring more data. A transformation of change in the … measure gives a distributionally sensitive monetary valuation of change in population health and disease burden. Application …

We study the effects of genetic endowments on inequalities in education, income, and health. Specifically, we conduct … our genetic score and socioeconomic outcomes is causal, (ii) genetic luck for higher income is linked with better health …

We present a theory of the relation between health and retirement that generates testable predictions regarding the … interaction of health, wealth and financial incentives in retirement decisions. The theory predicts (i) that wealthier individuals … (compared to poorer individuals) are more likely to retire for health reasons(affordability proposition), and (ii) that health …