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.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. TI 2023-017/V
- Klassifikation
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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
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Health
Lifespan
Life Expectancy
Inequality
Global Burden of Disease
Sub-Saharan Africa
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Da Costa, Shaun
O'Donnell, Owen
Van Gestel, Raf
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Tinbergen Institute
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Amsterdam and Rotterdam
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2023
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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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