A life satisfaction approach to valuing the impact of health behaviours on subjective well-being

BMC Public Health

Table 4 Comparisons of monetary values of health behaviours estimated based on income with/without indirect effect adjustment

Variables	Direct effect of income		Full (direct and indirect) effect of income
Variables	β Coefficient	Monetary value^c	β Coefficient	Monetary value
Logarithm (household income)	0.09^a	n/a	0.23^b	n/a
Leisure time physical activity
Active	0.14	$1092/week	0.14	$631/week
Moderately active	0.08	$815/week	0.08	$407/week
Frequency of fruit and vegetable consumption (daily)	0.02	$276/week	0.02	$115/week
Smoke-free	0.12	$1019/week	0.12	$563/week

^aIncome coefficient was obtained from the full life satisfaction model in Table 2
^bIncome coefficient was the sum of direct (Table 2) and indirect (Table 3) effect of income
^cMonetary value was estimated using the formula: M⁰ – e^{[ln(M0)- β2/ β1]}
M⁰: Annual average household income: $71,975; β1: coefficient of income (Bold); β2: coefficient of health behaviours

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