of the distribution. Analysis of the incidence of low birthweight and short birthlength using measures from the poverty …

This paper reviews methods for studying dominance and inequality in health economics. It concentrates on "pure … inequality" as opposed to inequality which is related to income or some other measure of household resources. The paper reviews … methods for cases when health can be measured cardinally and ordinally. There is also a brief review of statistical inference …

When measuring health inequality using ordinal data, analysts typically must choose between indices specifically based …