An ordinal measure of population health

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• dc.contributor.author Pifarré Arolas, Hèctor
• dc.contributor.author Dudel, Christian
• dc.date.accessioned 2021-02-17T12:39:50Z
• dc.date.available 2021-02-17T12:39:50Z
• dc.date.issued 2018
• dc.description.sponsorship We propose a population-level health index that addresses two of the main concerns of existing health measures: (1) the biases in self-assessed health measures, and (2) the difficulties associated with making comparisons across populations afflicted by a variety of conditions in a context in which multi-morbidity is high. Starting from a set of general axioms, we derive a partial order index that ranks health across populations based on the relative prevalence of various conditions within these populations, and that can be readily applied to many existing health surveys. We illustrate the use of our health measure by applying it to data from the National Health Interview Survey in order to examine health differences across racial groups in the U.S.en
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• dc.identifier.citation Pifarré i Arolas H, Dudel C. An ordinal measure of population health. Soc Indic Res. 2019; 143:1219–43. DOI: 10.1007/s11205-018-2010-4
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11205-018-2010-4
• dc.identifier.issn 0303-8300
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/46509
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Springer
• dc.relation.ispartof Social Indicators Research. 2019; 143:1219–43
• dc.rights Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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• dc.subject.keyword Health disparitiesen
• dc.subject.keyword Partial orderingen
• dc.subject.keyword Comparabilityen
• dc.subject.keyword NHIS
• dc.title An ordinal measure of population health
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