The subjective costs of health losses due to chronic diseases. An alternative model for monetary appraisal
The subjective costs of health losses due to chronic diseases. An alternative model for monetary appraisal
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DOI：
10.1002/hec.696
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发表时间：
2002-12-01
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2.1
通讯作者：
van Praag, BMS
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作者：
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, A;van Praag, BMS
本文提出了一种通过观察健康状况变化对幸福感的影响来评估健康损失或获得的方法。这篇论文给出了等值收入变化的估计，这是改变对生活的总体满意度所必需的，其程度与健康满意度的变化所起的作用相同。换言之，估计相当于健康满意度变化的收入。接下来，将这种健康满意度变化与特定疾病联系起来，以估计这些疾病的收入当量。这种方法使用德国大型数据集中提出的幸福和健康满意度问题的答案，区分工人和非工人以及东德人和西德人。例如，研究发现，对于西德工人来说，听力障碍平均相当于收入减少约20%，心脏或血液障碍对同一群体来说相当于收入减少47%。版权所有(C)2002 John Wiley Sons，Ltd.
This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in health satisfaction would do. In other words, the income equivalent of health satisfaction changes is estimated. Next, this health satisfaction changes are linked to specific diseases in order to estimate the income equivalent for these diseases. This method uses answers to well-being and health satisfaction questions as posed in a large German data set, distinguishing between workers and non-workers and between East and West Germans. It is found, for instance, that for West-German workers hearing impediments are on average equivalent to an income reduction of about 20%, and that heart or blood difficulties are for the same group equivalent to a 47% income reduction. Copyright (C) 2002 John Wiley Sons, Ltd.