TY - JOUR TI - Modelling the cost of ill health in Health&WealthMOD (Version II): Lost labour force participation, income and taxation, and the impact of disease prevention AU - Schofield, Deborah AU - Shrestha, Rupendra AU - Callander, Emily AU - Pervical, Richard AU - Kelly, Simon AU - Passey, Megan AU - Fletcher, Susan VL - 4 IS - 3 PY - 2011 DA - 2011/12/31 SP - 32-36 C1 - IJM 2011;4(3):32-36 DO - 10.34196/ijm.00058 UR - https://doi.org/10.34196/ijm.00058 AB - This paper provides a detailed description of the construction of Health&WealthMOD (Version II). It is Australia’s only microsimulation model of health and illness and their impacts on labour force participation, income, wealth and government revenue and expenditure. In this paper, we describe Health&WealthMOD (Version II) and its architecture, the application of the model, and some of the results it has produced. KW - Health&WealthMOD KW - cost of ill health KW - lost labour force participation KW - income KW - taxation KW - disease prevention JF - IJM SN - 1747-5864 PB - International Journal of Microsimulation ER -