Arbeitspapier

Distributionally Sensitive Measurement and Valuation of Population Health

We introduce a measure of population health that is sensitive to dispersion in both age-specific health and lifespan. The measure generalises health-adjusted life expectancy without requiring more data. A transformation of change in the measure gives a distributionally sensitive monetary valuation of change in population health and disease burden. Application to Sub-Saharan Africa between 1990 and 2019 reveals that the change in population health is sensitive to allowing for lifespan dispersion but is less sensitive to age-specific health dispersion. Distributional sensitivity changes relative burdens of diseases, reduces convergence between the burdens of communicable and non-communicable diseases, and so could influence disease prioritisation. It increases the value of health improvements relative to GDP.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. TI 2023-017/V

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Health and Inequality
Health and Economic Development
Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts
Value of Life; Forgone Income
Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
Thema
Health
Lifespan
Life Expectancy
Inequality
Global Burden of Disease
Sub-Saharan Africa

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Da Costa, Shaun
O'Donnell, Owen
Van Gestel, Raf
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Tinbergen Institute
(wo)
Amsterdam and Rotterdam
(wann)
2023

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Da Costa, Shaun
  • O'Donnell, Owen
  • Van Gestel, Raf
  • Tinbergen Institute

Entstanden

  • 2023

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