QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE DYNAMICS OF POPULATION HEALTH OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
D. A. Borzykh
National Research University Higher School of Economics, Myasnitskaya str., 20, Moscow, 101000, Russia
Keywords: регионы России, здоровье населения, композитный индекс, выборочная функция распределения, стохастическое доминирование второго порядка, кластеризация, Russian regions, population health, the composite index, sample distribution function, second-order stochastic dominance, clustering
Abstract
The article provides an analysis of the dynamics of the level of health of the Russian population. The level of population health is understood as a composite index constructed on the basis of life expectancy index and morbidity index. We use regional data of the period 2005-2013. In the article a method of measuring the health of the population not for a given region, but for the county population as a whole, is proposed. Also the technique for identification of dynamics of health of the Russian population is given. This technique is based on the principle of stochastic dominance of second order for sample distribution functions of index of population health for regions. In addition, a method of partitioning regions of Russia into clusters, consisting of similar regions on the dynamics of health, is given. The proposed approaches can be used to monitor the health of the population in order to: 1) determine the dynamics of the level of health of the Russian population in the whole country, 2) identify regions with low levels of health that need support.
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