Archive of Medical Research

Income, relative income, and self-reported health in Britain 1979-2000.
We test the relative income hypothesis that an individual\’s health depends on the distribution of income in a reference group, as well as on the income of the individual. We use data on 231 208 individuals in Great Britain from 19 rounds of the […]

Impact of the recall period on measuring health utilities for acute events.
The impact of healthcare interventions on health utility values is most frequently measured using a preference-based instrument. Each of the available instruments instructs the respondent to report their health status over different recall periods ranging from the current day to the […]