Approaches to measuring health inequalities are often problematic in that they use methods that are inappropriate for … 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 …

methods for making health inequality comparisons. Findings suggest significant differences in health inequality measurement … wealth. However, health status is generally measured as a categorical variable expressing a qualitative order. Traditional … independent. We argue that the way status is conceptualized has important theoretical implications for measurement as well as for …

Approaches to measuring health inequalities are often problematic in that they use methods that are inappropriate for … 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 …

The measurement of health inequalities usually involves either estimating the concentration of health outcomes using an … income-based measure of status or applying conventional inequality measurement tools to a health variable that is non … distribution of health outcomes: this enables us to deal consistently with categorical data. We examine several status concepts to …

the National Survey of Households-PNAD COVID-19/IBGE-to quantify the socioeconomic inequality in health during the first … analysis to verify the factors that most influence the inequalities in the specified health variables. We find a positive …

data creates some challenging problems in the measurement of inequalities of various distributions of health outcomes in a …In many instances, individual health outcomes are self-reported on several ordinal scales. The ordinal nature of the … measure for health inequality …

The measurement of health disparities is a key component for the assessment of health systems. One aspect of these … integrates risk into the standard inequality measurement which measures the extent to which disparities in realized health are … disparities - which hitherto has received limited attention - is the risk people face about their future health. This paper …

When measuring health inequality using ordinal data, analysts typically must choose between indices specifically based …

We study inequality in the distribution of self-assessed health (SAH) in the United States and China, two large … social determinants of health. Using comparable health survey data from China and the United States, we compare health … inequality trends throughout the period covering the public health insurance coverage expansions in the two countries. We find …