A comparison of the grade of membership measure with alternative health indicators in explaining costs for older people

Health Economics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 379-395

  McNamee, Paul ^a,b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Institute of Applied Health Sciences   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Elderly; Endogeneity; Grade of membership; Healthy status; Instrumental variables

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MENTAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SATISFACTION; SELF EVALUATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC;

EID: 1842780160     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.833     Document Type: Article

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