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01.08.2013 | Original Paper

Measuring Worksite Health Promotion Programs: an application of Structural Equation Modeling with ordinal data

verfasst von: Fredrik Ødegaard, Pontus Roos

Erschienen in: The European Journal of Health Economics | Ausgabe 4/2013

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Abstract

This paper presents a model for measuring the outcome of Worksite Health Promotion Programs through an application of Structural Equation Modeling with ordinal data. We model the function “being healthy” as a vector comprised of three latent or unobservable variables: Health Status, Lifestyle and Stress. Each variable can be measured only indirectly through a set of manifest or observable ordinal indicators. The objective is to derive and analyze the distributions, and changes in distributions over time, of the latent variables on an individual level. The model is analyzed empirically on data from three large Swedish manufacturing firms.

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Titel: Measuring Worksite Health Promotion Programs: an application of Structural Equation Modeling with ordinal data
verfasst von: Fredrik Ødegaard
Pontus Roos
Publikationsdatum: 01.08.2013
Verlag: Springer-Verlag
Erschienen in: The European Journal of Health Economics / Ausgabe 4/2013
Print ISSN: 1618-7598
Elektronische ISSN: 1618-7601
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-012-0409-4

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