Perceived health status in a comparative perspective: Methodological limitations and policy implications for Israel

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• 作者：Baruch Levi
• 关键词：Perceived health status ; OECD ; Better life index ; Health measurement ; Health policy ; Israel
• 刊名：Israel Journal of Health Policy Research
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：6
• 期：1
• 全文大小：1020KB
• 刊物主题：Medicine/Public Health, general; Health Administration; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; Social Policy;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：2045-4015
• 卷排序：6

文摘

BackgroundThe perceived health status indicator included in the OECD Health Statistics suffers from severe methodological limitations related to data collection. Furthermore, this indicator is also included in the OECD's Better Life Index, thus distorting the total health score of some OECD countries, among them Israel. The purpose of this paper is to explore the erroneous use of OECD health data in Israel and to warn of its implications.