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...

When measuring health inequality using ordinal data, analysts typically must choose between indices specifically based upon ordinal data and more standard indices using ordinal data which has been transformed into cardinal data. This paper compares inequality rankings across a number of...