Healthy-Time Measures of Health Outcomes and Healthcare Quality / Marguerite Burns, John Mullahy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burns, Marguerite.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Mullahy, John.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w22562.

NBER working paper series no. w22562

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2016.

Summary:

The purposes of this paper are to describe some conceptual and empirical foundations of "healthy-time" measures of health outcomes or healthcare quality, and to explore how to expand the empirical opportunities for measuring such outcomes using U.S. national survey data. To these ends, the paper provides an overview of Grossman's seminal health production framework, surveys some of the healthy-time outcome/quality measures in use across a variety of contexts and applications, explores how data from the U.S. Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) might be used to develop ongoing healthy-time measures for U.S. samples, describes an econometric strategy for studying such outcomes, and presents estimates of regression models describing two sets of healthy-time outcome measures obtained from 2011 and 2012 MEPS data.

Notes:

Print version record

August 2016.