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...

In this paper, the method of deriving the parameter ε of inequality aversion from a parametric distribution of incomes is proposed. It is assumed that a social decision-maker appraises welfare in income distributions by means of the constant inequality aversion utility function and that incomes...