Comparing subjective and objective measures of health: Evidence from hypertension for the income/health gradient

被引：166

作者：

Johnston, David W. ^{[2
]}

Propper, Carol ^{[1
,3
]}

Shields, Michael A. ^{[4
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Bristol, CMPO, Bristol BS8 1TX, Avon, England

[2] Queensland Univ Technol, Sch Econ & Finance, Brisbane, Qld 4001, Australia

[3] Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol & Med, London, England

[4] Univ Melbourne, Dept Econ, Melbourne, Vic 3010, Australia

来源：

JOURNAL OF HEALTH ECONOMICS | 2009年 / 28卷 / 03期

基金：

英国经济与社会研究理事会;

关键词：

Hypertension; Objective health; Self-reported health; Reporting error; Income; SELF-RATED HEALTH; ASSESSED HEALTH; UNITED-STATES; INCOME; PREVALENCE; MORTALITY; INEQUALITIES; DISABILITY;

D O I：

10.1016/j.jhealeco.2009.02.010

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

Economists rely heavily on self-reported measures of health to examine the relationship between income and health. We directly compare survey responses of a self-reported measure of health that is commonly used in nationally representative surveys with objective measures of the same health condition. We focus oil hypertension. We find no evidence of an income/health gradient using self-reported hypertension but a sizeable gradient when using objectively measured hypertension. We also find that the probability of false negative reporting is significantly income graded. Our results suggest that using commonly available self-reported chronic health measures might underestimate true income-related inequalities in health. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：540 / 552

页数：13

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