2013
The impact of nursing homes on small-area life expectancies
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Publication
Health & Place , Volume 19 - Issue 1 p. 25- 32
The geographical distribution of nursing homes can significantly distort small-area life expectancy estimations. Consequently, uncorrected life expectancies should not be used for small-area life expectancy comparisons. Instead, several nursing home corrections have been proposed. The practical use of these corrections, however, is severely limited by data availability. This paper introduces a new, model-based nursing home correction that requires considerably less detailed nursing home data. A formal comparison shows that the proposed model-based approach is the recommended correction for all small-area life expectancy estimations where detailed previous residential address information of the nursing home population is not available. This makes the approach highly relevant for a wide range of empirical applications.
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Bayesian analysis, Life expectancy, Nursing homes, Small-area analysis, Urban health | |
dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2012.09.012, hdl.handle.net/1765/62120 | |
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Health & Place | |
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Jonker, M.F, van Lenthe, F.J, Donkers, A.C.D, Congdon, P.D, Burdorf, A, & Mackenbach, J.P. (2013). The impact of nursing homes on small-area life expectancies. Health & Place, 19(1), 25–32. doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2012.09.012
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