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wealth. However, health status is generally measured as a categorical variable expressing a qualitative order. Traditional … policy analysis. We also bring to the data a recently proposed approach to measuring self-reported health inequality that … meets both rigorous and practical considerations. We draw upon the World Health Survey data to examine alternative pragmatic …
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The measurement of health inequalities usually involves either estimating the concentration of health outcomes using an … income-based measure of status or applying conventional inequalitymeasurement tools to a health variable that is non … distribution of health outcomes: this enables us to deal consistently with categorical data. We examine several status concepts to …
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The distribution of health inequalities appears to exhibit a different pattern when samples of developing countries are … examined. One explanation is the existence of a health Kuznets ́curve. This paper sets out as an exploratory analysis to test … the latter hypothesis of an inverse U shape pattern between both economic and health development and income inequalities …
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high risk of COVID-19 mortality who experienced major health shocks during the pandemic, inequality aversion was …We study the determinants of individual aversion to health and income inequality in three European countries and the … effects of exposure to COVID-19 including the effect employment, income and health shocks using representative samples of the …
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Although measures of sensitivity to inequality are important in judging the welfare effects of health-care programmes …, it is far from straightforward how to elicit them and apply them in health-care decision making. This paper provides an … overview of the literature on the measurement of inequality aversion, examines some of the features specific of the health …
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Air pollution generates vast health burdens and economic costs around the world. Pollution exposure varies greatly … Global Burden of Disease framework, I find that mortality associated with PM2.5 exposure is even more unequal than pollution …
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We decompose changing gaps in life expectancy between rich and poor into differential changes in age-specific mortality … rates and differences in "survivability". Declining age-specific mortality rates increases life expectancy, but the gain is … inequality in the US and the entire rise in Denmark. Cardiovascular mortality declines favored the poor, but differences in …
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Using survey experiments in the United States and Germany with 12,000 participants, we examine perceptions of life … and unconditional public support for health equity policies. …
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The effect of insurance expansions on the distribution of health status is still a matter we know little about. This … paper draws upon new measures of pure health inequality and mobility in health which accommodates categorical data to … understand how an expansion of public insurance affects both inequality and mobility in health. These measures require a measure …
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The definition of inequality is complicated and difficult to assess, and there are various means by which it is evaluated. This study uses the now well-accepted measures of body mass, height, and weight to assess inequality's relationship with current and cumulative net nutrition. Taller...
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