In most health survey the state of health of individuals is measured through several different kinds of variables such … of health that summarize the information. To do so, we propose in this paper to use Generalized Linear Latent Variable … set of observable ones. As an application, we consider the data from the 1997 Swiss Health Survey and build two health …

, and protection from the risk of financial loss. For health systems, this goal is of particular importance and especially … special concern about how health systems are financed.(Behrman 1995;Londoño & Frenk 1997;World Health Organization 2000) Much … of the public discourse in countries undertaking health sector reform is focused on the design of health system financing …

When health status is an ordered response variable, Allison and Foster (2004) postulate that a distribution Q exhibits …

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 …

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 …