Approaches to measuring health inequalities are often problematic in that they use methods that are inappropriate for … categorical data. The approach here focuses on "pure" or univariate health inequality (rather than income-related or bivariate … health inequality) and is based on a concept of individual status that allows a consistent treatment of such data. We use …

inequality trends throughout the period covering the public health insurance coverage expansions in the two countries. We find …-sensitivity parameter used; however, the regional pattern of SAH inequality is clearly associated with health-insurance coverage expansions …We study inequality in the distribution of self-assessed health (SAH) in the United States and China, two large …