This Chapter describes in detail the elements of HealthAgeingMod: the data
sources and methods used, the assumptions underlying the model-system, the variables
that needed to be modified, or imputed; the demographic and health characteristics of
the Base-year dataset; the method of projecting into the future; and, for the diabetes and
CVD sub-models, the data sources used and the incidence equations developed.
Keywords: Economic model building, cross-sectional and longitudinal data
sources, microdata, methodologies, equations to predict risk factor and disease
probabilities, microsimulation.
