This paper describes approaches to the measurement and explanation of income-related inequality and inequity in health … care financing, health care utilization and health and considers the applicability and the feasibility of these methods in … structure of health finance in low-income countries, in particular the heavy reliance on out-of-pocket payments, means that the …

Reliance on self-rated health to proxy medical need can bias estimation of education-related inequity in health care … utilisation. We correct this bias both by instrumenting self-rated health with objective health indicators and by purging self …-rated health of reporting heterogeneity identified from health vignettes. Using data on elderly Europeans, we find that …

reform that permitted Dutch health insurers and hospitals to freely negotiate prices for elective procedures. Unlike previous …

Introduction -- Data for health equity analysis: requirements, sources, and sample design -- Health outcome #1: child … survival -- Health outcome #2: anthropometrics -- Health outcome #3: adult health -- Measurement of living standards … -- Concentration curves -- The concentration index -- Extensions to the concentration index: inequality aversion and the health …

reform that permitted Dutch health insurers and hospitals to freely negotiate prices for elective procedures. Unlike previous …