We propose a method of quantifying non-fatal health on a 0-1 QALY scale that details the impact of specific symptoms … and impairments and is not based on ratings of counterfactual scenarios. Measures of general health status are regressed … on health impairments and symptoms in different domains, using ordered probit and ordinary least squares regression. This …

measurement error in these 'objective, self-reported' measures of health. Our analysis makes use of a unique data set that matches … preferable, measures of unobserved health status than self-assessed measures of global well being. The former are 1) responses to … a variety of self-reports of health with respondents' medical records. Our findings are striking. For example, the ratio …

Various health-, quality-, and disability-adjusted life year or life expectancy (HALY, QALY, DALY; HALE, QALE, DALE …) measures have become gold standards for defining outcomes in technology evaluation, population health monitoring, and other … QALEs used for population health monitoring are typically concerned with population expectations of such measures (or their …

Labor supply estimates are sensitive to the measures of health used. When self reported measures are used health seems … incorporating both self-reported and objective measures of health. I use the model to show the potential biases involved in using … either measure of health or in using one to instrument the other- When outside information on the validity of self …

health outcomes or healthcare quality, and to explore how to expand the empirical opportunities for measuring such outcomes … using U.S. national survey data. To these ends, the paper provides an overview of Grossman's seminal health production …

the influence of health on these precesses. We also study the evolution of elderly health and the impact of economic … variables on health outcomes. We present results from estimating our models using data from waves one and two of the AHEAD … of equations. We divide households for which head and partner (if present) are in poor health and those for which head …

We study the impact of economic crisis on health in Mexico. There have been four wide-scale economic crises in Mexico …

We use data from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to examine the prevalence and determinants … interpret our results using a model in which investments in health capital are affected by both resource constraints and a human …