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010 _a81000331
020 _a0833002929
027 _aRAND/R-2696-1-HHS
035 _a(Sirsi) a188125
037 _c$25.00
040 _aCstmoR
_cCstmoR
050 4 _aRA408.5
_b.M3 1981
100 1 _aManning, Willard G.
_eauthor.
245 1 4 _aThe status of health in demand estimation :
_bbeyond excellent, good, fair, and poor /
_cWillard G. Manning, Joseph P. Newhouse, John E. Ware, Jr.
264 1 _aSanta Monica, CA :
_bRAND,
_c1981.
300 _axi, 62 pages ;
_c28 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aHealth insurance experiment series
500 _a"August 1981."
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 59-62).
520 _aThis study addresses two issues. (1) What can one gain by using more comprehensive measures of health status in demand estimation than a common single item measure? Would you rate your health as excellent, good, fair, or poor? The authors find that by using multidimensional and less-coarse health status measures they achieve an increase in precision approximately equivalent to a 10 percent increase in sample size. (2) What is the consequence of employing postdiction (i.e., predicting utilization from health status measured after the fact) rather than prediction? Using a simple, but plausible, model, the authors show that such measures cause the estimates to be inconsistent; the direction of the inconsistency generally cannot be signed a priori. Empirically the direction is generally away from zero.
530 _aAlso available on the internet via WWW in PDF format.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aHealth status indicators.
650 0 _aHealth surveys.
650 0 _aMedical care
_xUtilization.
700 1 _aNewhouse, Joseph P.
_eauthor.
700 1 _aWare, John E.
_eauthor.
710 2 _aRand Corporation.
710 1 _aUnited States.
_bDepartment of Health and Human Services.
856 4 1 _yOnline Access
_uhttp://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R2696-1/
999 _c599865
_d599865