Health Domain

Health statistics serves as a means to tackle public health problems. However, current available data are short of what is required for systematic and comprehensive measurement of health. In a way, health information compilation and dissemination in Bhutan has conventionally focused on output based measurement of health such as number of mortality and morbidity conditions. This study, therefore, aims to provide broader and internationally comparable information on health, such as the determinants of health, which have been largely left to individual’s choices. It also aims to find out health inequalities between different demographic groups such as gender, age, region, income, education level and so on. The paper also aims to see the relationship between happiness and health (as represented by self-rated health), happiness and selected health variables and health and other health variables. The limitation like the data accurateness is expected because the mode of data collection is based on self-report by the respondents and not medically assessed except for BMI which is actually weighed and measured.