The Relationship between Self-rated Health and Hospital Records
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The Relationship between Self-rated Health and Hospital Records. / Nielsen, Torben Heien.
I: Health Economics, Bind 25, Nr. 4, 04.2016, s. 497–512.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - The Relationship between Self-rated Health and Hospital Records
AU - Nielsen, Torben Heien
N1 - JEL classification: I10; I19
PY - 2016/4
Y1 - 2016/4
N2 - This paper investigates whether self-rated health (SRH) covaries with individual hospital records. By linking the Danish Longitudinal Survey on Ageing with individual hospital records covering all hospital admissions from 1995 to 2006, I show that SRH is correlated to historical, current, and future hospital records. I use both measures separately to control for health in a regression of mortality on wealth. Using only historical and current hospitalization controls for health yields the common result that SRH is a stronger predictor of mortality than objective health measures. The addition of future hospitalizations as controls shows that the estimated gradient on wealth is similar to one in which SRH is the control. The results suggest that with a sufficiently long time series of individual records, objective health measures can predict mortality to the same extent as global self-rated measures.
AB - This paper investigates whether self-rated health (SRH) covaries with individual hospital records. By linking the Danish Longitudinal Survey on Ageing with individual hospital records covering all hospital admissions from 1995 to 2006, I show that SRH is correlated to historical, current, and future hospital records. I use both measures separately to control for health in a regression of mortality on wealth. Using only historical and current hospitalization controls for health yields the common result that SRH is a stronger predictor of mortality than objective health measures. The addition of future hospitalizations as controls shows that the estimated gradient on wealth is similar to one in which SRH is the control. The results suggest that with a sufficiently long time series of individual records, objective health measures can predict mortality to the same extent as global self-rated measures.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - I10
KW - I19
U2 - 10.1002/hec.3167
DO - 10.1002/hec.3167
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 25702929
VL - 25
SP - 497
EP - 512
JO - Health Economics
JF - Health Economics
SN - 1057-9230
IS - 4
ER -
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