Income-related inequality in life-years and quality-adjusted life-years.

نویسندگان

  • U G Gerdtham
  • M Johannesson
چکیده

We estimate the income-related inequality in Sweden with respect to life-years and quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs). We use a large data set from Sweden with over 40,000 individuals followed up for 10-16 years, to estimate the survival and quality-adjusted survival in different income groups. For both life-years and QALYs, we discover inequalities in health favouring the higher income groups. For men (women) in the youngest age-group (20-29 years), the number of QALYs is 43.7 (45.7) in the lowest income decile and 47.2 (49.0) in the highest income decile.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of health economics

دوره 19 6  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2000