categorical data. The approach here focuses on "pure" or univariate health inequality (rather than income-related or bivariate … health inequality) and is based on a concept of individual status that allows a consistent treatment of such data. We use … inequality for the countries contained in the World Health Survey; we also use regression analysis on the apparent determinants …

income-based measure of status or applying conventional inequality measurement tools to a health variable that is non …The measurement of health inequalities usually involves either estimating the concentration of health outcomes using an … status. The approach in this paper is based on measuring inequality conditional on an individual's position in the …

We re-examine some of the standard axioms used in the literature on poverty measurement. Using a sample of 486 students … specific criteria for poverty measurement that we examined …

methods for making health inequality comparisons. Findings suggest significant differences in health inequality measurement …Much of the theoretical literature on inequality assumes that the equalisand is a cardinal variable like income or … solutions involve reclassifying the variable by means of qualitative models and relying on inequality measures that are mean …

income-based measure of status or applying conventional inequality-measurement tools to a health variable that is non …The measurement of health inequalities usually involves either estimating the concentration of health outcomes using an … status. The approach in this paper is based on measuring inequality conditional on an individual's position in the …

We study inequality in the distribution of self-assessed health (SAH) in the United States and China, two large … inequality trends throughout the period covering the public health insurance coverage expansions in the two countries. We find … that whether SAH inequality is greater in the US or in China depends on the concept of status and the inequality …

We show how classic source-decomposition and subgroup-decomposition methods can be reconciled with regression … approach. The LIS database is used to compare the approaches using an analysis of the changing contributions to inequality in …