methods for making health inequality comparisons. Findings suggest significant differences in health inequality measurement … 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 …

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 …

modern obesity epidemic is a well-known health dilemma where the BMI distribution was initially positively skewed but has … become more symmetric, which may affect inferences about health and public resource allocation. This study applies partially …