Does reporting heterogeneity bias the measurement of health disparities?

被引：194

作者：

D'Uva, Teresa Bago ^{[1
,4
]}

Van Doorslaer, Eddy ^{[4
]}

Lindeboom, Maarten ^{[2
,4
,5
]}

O'Donnell, Owen ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] Erasmus Univ, Dept Appl Econ, Erasmus Sch Econ, NL-3000 DR Rotterdam, Netherlands

[2] Free Univ Amsterdam, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands

[3] Univ Macedonia, Macedonia, Greece

[4] Tinbergen Inst, Amsterdam, Netherlands

[5] IZA, HEB, Bonn, Germany

来源：

HEALTH ECONOMICS | 2008年 / 17卷 / 03期

关键词：

health measurement; vignettes; self-reported health; reporting heterogeneity;

D O I：

10.1002/hec.1269

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

Heterogeneity in reporting of health by socio-economic and demographic characteristics potentially biases the measurement of health disparities. We use anchoring vignettes to identify socio-demographic differences in the reporting of health in Indonesia, India and China. Homogeneous reporting by socio-demographic group is rejected and correcting for reporting heterogeneity tends to reduce slightly estimated disparities in health by education (not China) and to increase those by income. But the method does not reveal substantial reporting bias in measures of health disparities. Copyright (C) 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

引用

页码：351 / 375

页数：25

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