impediments. The analysis is based on the individual self-rating health satisfaction question asked in the British Household Panel … regarding the relationship between the latent variable ?health? and its evaluation into observable QALY?s. Second, we allow the …

primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of near-elderly Americans, relative to their European peers. In particular …, we use a microsimulation approach to project what US longevity would look like, if US health trends approximated those in … Europe. We find that differences in health can explain most of the growing gap in remaining life expectancy. In addition, we …

The public economic burden of shifting trends in population health remains uncertain. Sustained increases in obesity … - but these savings may be offset by worsening functional status, which increases health care spending, reduces labor supply … of shifting trends in population health for medical care costs, labor supply, earnings, wealth, tax revenues, and …

This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in … health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general … satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in health satisfaction would do. In other words, we estimate the income …

Using a matched insurant-general practitioner panel data set, we estimated the effect of a general health …-screening program on individuals' health status and health care cost. To account for selection into treatment, we used regional … screening participation substantially increased inpatient and outpatient health care costs for up to two years after treatment …

Many recent writings in health policy have proposed that health be valued directly and in monetary terms using the new … may be for the evaluation process. To shed light on this issue, monetary values for a number of health problems are … consistency of health impacts within each well-being measure, hugely different monetary valuations are obtained for the same …

rationality and health insurance externalities. We also calculate the long term financial consequences of current US and European …

, using solely non-subjective data, in a literature from economics (so-called 'compensating differentials' neoclassical theory …