Research Article

Developing a Dynamic Microsimulation Model of the Australian Health System: A Means to Explore Impacts of Obesity over the Next 50 Years

Table 6

Year-on-year percent change for health status levels, 2006ā€“2008.

HILDA (APPSIM)Health status at tāˆ’1Total
Health status at time t ExcellentVery goodGoodFairPoor

Excellent6.0 (6.9)4.2 (4.1)0.5 (0.7)0.0 (0.1)0.0 (0.0)10.7 (11.8)
Very good4.2 (4.1)22.4 (19.8)8.0 (7.5)0.6 (0.8)0.0 (0.1)35.3 (32.4)
Good0.6 (0.6)8.6 (8.3)22.7 (21.7)4.4 (4.8)0.2 (0.2)36.5 (35.6)
Fair0.1 (0.1)0.7 (0.4)4.8 (5.3)7.6 (8.5)1.1 (1.5)14.3 (15.6)
Poor0.0 (0.1)0.1 (0.0)0.2 (0.2)1.1 (1.5)1.8 (2.8)3.2 (4.6)
Total10.9 (11.8)36.0 (32.6)36.2 (35.4)13.8 (15.7)3.1 (4.5)100