Wagstaff, Adam; Paci, Pierella; van Doorslaer, Eddy - In: Social Science & Medicine 33 (1991) 5, pp. 545-557
This paper offers a critical appraisal of the various methods employed to date to measure inequalities in health. It suggests that only two of these--the slope index of inequality and the concentration index--are likely to present an accurate picture of socioeconomic inequalities in health. The...