On the measurement of the nation's equity adjusted health.
The aim of this article is to show a method for measuring the nation's equity-adjusted health. In order to estimate what the 'nation's health function' looks like, data from a survey sent to a sample of Swedish politicians were used. The results from the survey can be interpreted as a measure of inequity aversion, and this was applied to data on healthy years (HY) for males in different social groups for the period 1975-1990. The mean of healthy years increased during the period 1986-1990 by 1.09% while equity adjusted healthy years (HY(EDE)) dropped by -1.78%. The nation's health has decreased in spite of the fact that the individual's health has increased.
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Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Umeå, Sweden. Lars.Lindholm@epiph.umu.se
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000592:standards*; D006304:Health Status; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000401:mortality; D009790:Occupations; D019057:Quality-Adjusted Life Years; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D016019:Survival Analysis; D013548:Sweden / Q000453:epidemiology