Research Catalog

Title

The status of health in demand estimation : beyond excellent, good, fair and poor / Willard G. Manning, Jr., Joseph P. Newhouse, John E. Ware, Jr.

Author

Manning, Willard G., Jr. (Willard Graham), 1946-2014.

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : Rand Corporation, 1981.

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Additional Authors

• Newhouse, Joseph P.
• Ware, John E.
• United States. Department of Health and Human Services
• Rand Corporation.

Summary

This study addresses two issues. (1) What can one gain by using more comprehensive measures of health status in demand estimation than a common single item measure? Would you rate your health as excellent, good, fair, or poor? The authors find that by using multidimensional and less-coarse health status measures they achieve an increase in precision approximately equivalent to a 10 percent increase in sample size. (2) What is the consequence of employing postdiction (i.e., predicting utilization from health status measured after the fact) rather than prediction? Using a simple, but plausible, model, the authors show that such measures cause the estimates to be inconsistent; the direction of the inconsistency generally cannot be signed a priori. Empirically the direction is generally away from zero.

Subject

• Health status indicators
• Health surveys
• Medical care > Utilization
• Health Services > economics
• Health Services > utilization
• Health Services Needs and Demand
• Health Services Research
• Health Status Indicators
• Health Surveys
• Statistics as Topic

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 59-62).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

OCLC

• 7694535
• SCSB-10158659

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library