rather than decreased obesity amongst the less well-off. A decomposition of the concentration indices suggest that the …Using the nationally representative Slan dataset we calculate concentration indices for the incidence of obesity for … fell between 2002 and 2007. However this appears to be owing to an increased incidence of obesity amongst better off people …

Using the nationally representative Slan dataset we take a number of approaches to profile the change in obesity in … years. There is evidence that obesity and overweight are relatively more concentrated amongst males, the old and those with … lower educational achievement. While obesity rose slightly over the period this was due to a rise in the average level of …

This paper proposes a new method of measuring obesity using Body Mass Index (BMI) data. Conventional measures which … measures currently used in the poverty literature can be usefully applied to measure obesity and provide us with measures which …

decomposition techniques to Irish data for 1994 and 2000 to examine the factors lying behind the gender differences in GHQ score …

stress fell in Ireland over the 1994 to 2000 period regardless of the threshold chosen. Decomposition techniques suggest that …

its decomposition, socio-economic inequalities of tobacco consumption grouped by gender were estimated. The concentration …

This article suggests an extension of the standard decomposition of the concentration index that allows for an … for one vital health-related behavior, smoking. The decomposition uses an underlying model that considers both individual …

Much analysis of the socioeconomic gradient of overweight/obesity has involved the calculation of concentration indices … recommended that analysis of severity should always accompany analysis of the incidence of overweight/obesity. …