On the measurement of health and its effect on the measurement of health inequality

Health and wellbeing in Norway: Population norms and the social gradient

“…When attempting to reduce the potential problem of reporting heterogeneity, we agree with Nesson and Robinson (2019) that, instead of a brief single-item SAH question there is a need for multivariate measures. An important class of such descriptive systems are the generic preference-based measures of health-related quality of life (HRQoL).…”

“…However, other studies suggest the opposite direction of such discrepancies (see e.g. Shmueli, 2003;Nesson and Robinson, 2019). Thus, the magnitude and direction of any reporting https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113155 Received in revised form 10 June 2020; Accepted 18 June 2020 heterogeneity is hard to predict a priori (Dowd, 2012).…”

A general pattern of health erosion in the United States? An examination of self-reported health status from 1997 – 2018

“…self-reports, self-assessments) and objective measures (i.e. symptoms, biomarkers or cognitive measures) in the study of population health ( Nesson & Robinson, 2019 ; Ramírez et al, 2005 ).…”

Changes in socio-economic inequality in nutritional status among children in EAG states, India

“…Second, we decomposed the inequality based on concentration curves and concentration indices proposed by Wagstaff et al (2003), a widely used method to measure health inequality (24)(25)(26)28,31,32,59) . However, Nesson and Robinson (2019) briefly listed methodological issues with the concentration index (60) . Third, we analysed cross-sectional data, hence could not establish a causal relationship between socio-economic and demographic variables and childhood stunting and underweight.…”