Internationally comparable health indices

Health Economics

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 600-619

  Meijer, Erik ^a   Kapteyn, Arie ^a   Andreyeva, Tatiana ^b  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

health measurement; latent variables; LISCOMP

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EUROPE; FEMALE; GRIP STRENGTH; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCOME; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SAMPLE SIZE; SELF REPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGE FACTORS; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EUROPE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; MOBILITY LIMITATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF REPORT; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 79953057825     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: 10991050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.1620     Document Type: Article

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