Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/273828 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. TI 2023-017/V
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
We introduce a measure of population health that is sensitive to dispersion in both age-specific health and lifespan. The measure generalises health-adjusted life expectancy without requiring more data. A transformation of change in the measure gives a distributionally sensitive monetary valuation of change in population health and disease burden. Application to Sub-Saharan Africa between 1990 and 2019 reveals that the change in population health is sensitive to allowing for lifespan dispersion but is less sensitive to age-specific health dispersion. Distributional sensitivity changes relative burdens of diseases, reduces convergence between the burdens of communicable and non-communicable diseases, and so could influence disease prioritisation. It increases the value of health improvements relative to GDP.
Subjects: 
Health
Lifespan
Life Expectancy
Inequality
Global Burden of Disease
Sub-Saharan Africa
JEL: 
I14
I15
J11
J17
O15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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