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The World Health Organization (WHO) sees health as a resource for everyday life, a fundamental human right and, especially important for economists and social scientists, an essential component of the economic and social development of every modern society. Health determinants which could lead...
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Health inequalities remain a cause of concern for policymakers across the world. However, the measurement and monitoring of health inequalities over time and across countries remain a research challenge. The concentration index is one of the most popular measurement tools, however, it presents...
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This paper studies the pattern of non-random measurement error in self-assessed health responses across population subgroups and examines whether anchoring of vignettes can be used to identify this bias. It uses unique data from the World Health Survey (WHS)-SAGE survey(wave 1) from India, that...
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, more specifically, on inequality of opportunity in the health dimension, remains scarce in this context. This paper … explores the degree of inequality of opportunity in health in a developing country, using the 2007 Indonesian Family Life … inequality of opportunity in the health dimension. Our results show large inequality of opportunities in health in Indonesia …
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, more specifically, on inequality of opportunity in the health dimension, remains scarce in this context. This paper … explores the degree of inequality of opportunity in health in a developing country, using the 2007 Indonesian Family Life … inequality of opportunity in the health dimension. Our results show large inequality of opportunities in health in Indonesia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960509
expansion without jeopardizing global expenditures control. Denmark is one of the countries where DRG tariffs have been added to … the mixed reimbursement in Denmark. In doing so, the paper provides a qualitative assessment of the mixed reimbursement … as implemented in Denmark does not present any innovation. Hence, any empirical research based on the assumption that the …
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We assess the effect of income inequality on life expectancy by performing separate estimations for developed and … developing countries. Our empirical analysis challenges the widely held view that inequality matters more for health in richer … income inequality increases life expectancy in developed countries. By contrast, the effect on life expectancy is …
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Survey (CHNS) data. Three decades of persistent economic growth in China has been accompanied by high income inequality …, which may in turn be caused by the inequality of opportunity in education and health. In this paper, we find that there is a … existence of intergenerational health inequality in China. The correlation is persistent with different health measures and …
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Existing situation in India is marked by laudable health indicators in terms of increased life expectancy which doubled since independence and eradication of some of the preventable diseases. Yet the main concern continues both for the policy makers and people in terms of inequity of health...
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This Working Paper examines income-related inequalities in health care service utilisation in OECD countries. It extends a previous analysis (Van Doorslaer and Masseria, 2004) to 2008-2009 for 13 countries, and adds new results for 6 countries, for doctor and dentist visits, and cancer...
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