A multidimensional approach to measure health.

In this paper, we borrowed the methodology of the so-called ?fuzzy approach to multidimensional poverty measurement? (see Cerioli and Zani, 1990) in order to propose a different approach to measuring health. This multidimensional indicator satisfies three decomposition properties: by group, by health items, and the so-called multidimensional decomposition. These techniques allows to better evaluate the structure of the population's global health. An empirical application of this synthetic indicator is proposed using the fifth wave of the SHARE survey in order to analyze the health status of the Luxembourgish population.