Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-329) and index.
Chapter Introduction -- part PART I Data description -- chapter 1 Data and survey design -- chapter 2 Describing the dynamics of health -- chapter 3 Inequality in health utility and self-assessed health -- part PART II Categorical data -- chapter 4 Bias in self-reported data -- chapter 5 Health and lifestyles -- part PART III Survival data -- chapter 6 Smoking and mortality -- chapter 7 Health and retirement -- part PART IV Panel data -- chapter 8 Health and wages -- chapter 9 Modelling the dynamics of health -- chapter 10 Non-response and attrition bias -- chapter 11 Models for health-care use.