Multidimensional health modeling: association between socioeconomic and psychosocial factors and health in Latvia

Type Working Paper
Title Multidimensional health modeling: association between socioeconomic and psychosocial factors and health in Latvia
Author(s)
Volume 1663672
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2009
URL https://www.cerge-ei.cz/pdf/gdn/rrc/RRCVIII_32_paper_01.pdf
Abstract
This research aims at estimating impact of socioeconomic and psychosocial factors on health outcomes in Latvia. We find empirical support for the association between psychosocial factors and health. This paper proposes new approach for modeling health. We find that concept of health is too complicated to measure effects of health determinants using a one-dimensional model. We apply two-dimensional stereotype logistic model that allows capturing nonmonotonicity in effects of latent factors and revealing significant effects that would remain unseen if single dimension models, such as ordered logit or probit, were used.

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