Health service deficits is a proxy for health care coverage and utilization since the BRFSS asks no questions about dental insurance.
Health status can be interpreted as a proxy for health and women with a poor self-assessed health status could have a high demand for these two cancer screening examinations in order to invest in prevention activities and to increase their health stock.
So insurers are using age as a proxy for health.
Treating weight as a proxy for health could result in underdiagnosis of more than 16 million normal-weight Americans and overdiagnosis of almost 56 million overweight and obese Americans.
We created a novel algorithm based on an employee's modifiable risk factors and preventive screenings that serves as a proxy for health status and enables us to stratify health risks into categories that measure acuity, that is, the level of severity of a condition or a measure of overall health status.
This is true even when obvious factors like income, prenatal care, and maternal health and age are controlled for, and substantially lowers America's performance in the statistics.Similarly, the UN has somewhat inexplicably decided to use "deaths from accidents and injuries, 0-19", as a proxy for health among that age group, rather than the more obvious "deaths, 0-19".
Hence, we feel that a sensitivity analysis using prescription medication as a proxy for health is in order.
Following this and considering the variables at hand we are confident that this is the best measure available to serve as a proxy for health status.
It has been argued that adult height is a marker of strength which is rewarded in the labor market; a proxy for cognitive performance or other dimensions of human capital such as school quality; a proxy for health status; and a proxy for family background and genetic characteristics.
"Weight as a proxy for health is extremely problematic, as it often misclassifies [larger] people as unhealthy.
"Race is basically a proxy for health, and therefore age," said Bob Libal, executive director of Grassroots Leadership, a criminal justice advocacy group opposed to the for-profit prison industry.
