We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health … inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration … indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more pronounced when using subjective health measures than when using …

role of multi-indicator constellations of socio-demographic variables, physical health and burden factors, and psychosocial … that were associated with differences in the shape of late-life well-being trajectories. Physical health factors were found …

Self-reported measures of health are generally treated as weak measures of respondents' objective health status. On the … other hand, most surveys use self-reported health to measure health status and to determine the effects of a range of other … socio-economic characteristics of the local environment on individual health. It is therefore of interest to the public …

This paper shows that the measurement of hand grip strength provides a non-invasive and reliable objective health … indicator for social science research and is easy to collect in general population surveys. Grip strength is not only a useful … complement of self-reported indicators of health, but it also exhibits a considerable predictive power with regard to a number of …

2004 erstmals erhobene Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) und der Pretest 2005 des Sozio … außerordentlich positiv eingeschätzt. -- Greifkraft ; Gesundheitsmessung ; SHARE ; SOEP ; grip strength ; health measurement ; SHARE …