The Measurement and Interpretation of Health in Social Surveys

Thomas, Duncan; Frankenberg, Elizabeth

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“…Because respondents may differ in their knowledge of health problems or their perceptions of what is healthy (Thomas and Frankenberg, 2002), we use an additional health measure defined from a question about whether the respondent was diagnosed with a psychiatric or mental condition in the past year. We find that a one percentage point rise in the unemployment rate is associated with a 0.4 to 0.9 percentage point (or 5-12%) increase in the likelihood of having a mental health diagnosis in the last year.…”

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Recessions and seniors’ health, health behaviors, and healthcare use: Analysis of the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey

McInerney

Mellor

2012

Journal of Health Economics

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Recessions and seniors’ health, health behaviors, and healthcare use: Analysis of the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey

McInerney

Mellor

2012

Journal of Health Economics

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“…The 9 analysis includes several physical assessments as well as self-report of physical functioning, each described later this section. The self-report of general health is not used, as it has been shown in Indonesia and many other settings to be subjective and suffer from systematic biases (Sadana, Mathers, Lopez, Murray, & Iburg, 2000;Thomas and Frankenberg, 2002a).…”

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Test of the ‘healthy migrant hypothesis’: A longitudinal analysis of health selectivity of internal migration in Indonesia

2008

Social Science & Medicine

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Previous studies have shown that immigrants are generally healthier than the native-born populations of receiving societies, a result generally attributed to the positive selection of migrants with respect to health. This hypothesis, however, has not been adequately evaluated due to data limitations. Using high-quality longitudinal data from Indonesia, I explicitly examine the health selectivity hypothesis, also referred to as the healthy migrant hypothesis, with respect to internal migration. Specifically, I study whether pre-migration health status affects the likelihood of migration by comparing those from the sending population who do and do not move. Results show that migrants in Indonesia do tend to be selected with respect to health and that this aspect of selection is robust to household unobserved heterogeneity.However, the strength and direction of the health-migration association vary by different types of migration and distinctive dimensions of health.

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“…A study of Malaysia finds that for the three main ethnic groups (Malay, Chinese, Indian), higher scores on a physical limitation scale are associated with a greater likelihood of reporting relatively poorer health (Wu and Rudkin 2000 Thomas and Frankenberg (2002) explore the relationship between physical assessments of health (lung function, blood pressure, hemoglobin, and body mass index) and SRH in Indonesia. For men and women whose body mass index is below 18 or whose hemoglobin level is below 12 (anemic), reports of poor health are significantly less likely with increases in body mass index or with increases in hemoglobin.…”

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Self-Rated Health and Mortality: Does the Relationship Extend to a Low Income Setting?

2004

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* This paper has benefited from the helpful comments of Duncan Thomas and three anonymous reviewers. Financial support from the National Institute on Aging (NIA P01-AG08291, R01-AG20909, and 5T-AGO-00244), the National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD R01-HD40384) is gratefully acknowledged. 1 ABSTRACTAlthough a relationship between poor self-reported health status and excess mortality risks has been well-established for industrialized countries, almost no research considers developing countries. We use data from Indonesia to show that in a low-income setting, as in more advantaged parts of the world, individuals who perceive their health to be poor are significantly more likely to die in subsequent follow-up periods than their counterparts who view their health as good. This result characterizes both men and women, holds for multiple time periods, and remains after inclusion of measures of nutritional status, physical functioning, symptoms of poor physical health and depression, and hypertension. We also consider the correlates of self-rated health. Symptoms and physical functioning are strong predictors of reporting poor rather than good health, but neither these indicators nor other covariates we consider distinguish between reports of excellent rather than good health.2

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The Measurement and Interpretation of Health in Social Surveys

Cited by 37 publications

References 37 publications

Recessions and seniors’ health, health behaviors, and healthcare use: Analysis of the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey

Recessions and seniors’ health, health behaviors, and healthcare use: Analysis of the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey

Test of the ‘healthy migrant hypothesis’: A longitudinal analysis of health selectivity of internal migration in Indonesia

Self-Rated Health and Mortality: Does the Relationship Extend to a Low Income Setting?

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