The measurement of health disparities is a key component for the assessment of health systems. One aspect of these … integrates risk into the standard inequality measurement which measures the extent to which disparities in realized health are … disparities - which hitherto has received limited attention - is the risk people face about their future health. This paper …

measurement scale, by providing formal proofs of several issues in the debate, and by lifting the curtain on the confusing debate … between adherents of absolute versus relative health differences. We end this paper with a matrix that provides guidelines on …

It is well known that income and health are positively associated. Much less is known about the strength of this … by government transfers versus market transfers on changes in income-related health inequality (IRHI) in Europe. Using …

We design a novel experiment to identify aversion to pure (univariate) health inequality separately from aversion to … income-related and income-caused health inequality. Participants allocate resources to determine health of individuals … preferences while accounting for noise. The median person has strong aversion to pure health inequality, challenging the health …

Little is known about what the economic crisis has done to health disparities by income. We apply a decomposition …-demographic groups to changes in health disparities by income in Spain using longitudinal data from the Survey of Income and Living … Conditions (SILC) for the period 2004-2012. We find a modest rise in health inequality by income in Spain in the five years of …

We introduce a measure of population health that is sensitive to dispersion in both agespecific health and lifespan …. The measure generalises health-adjusted life expectancy without requiring more data. A transformation of change in the … measure gives a distributionally sensitive monetary valuation of change in population health and disease burden. Application …

-related inequality of self-assessed health evolve over the life cycle and differ across generations in 11 EU countries. There is a … moderate and steady decline in mean health until the age of 70 or so and a steep acceleration in the rate of health … economic and social development, the average health of younger generations is significantly better than that of older …