Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 598
Cover Image
Measuring Socioeconomic Inequality in Health, Health Care and Health Financing by Means of Rank-Dependent Indices: A Recipe for Good Practice
Erreygers, Guido; Ourti, Tom Van - 2010
The tools to be used and other choices to be made when measuring socioeconomic inequalities with rank-dependent inequality indices have recently been debated in this journal. This paper adds to this debate by stressing the importance of the measurement scale, by providing formal proofs of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326021
Cover Image
Correcting the Concentration Index for Binary Variables
Kjellsson, Gustav; Gerdtham, Ulf-G. - 2011
This paper discusses measurement of socioeconomic inequalities in prevalence of a health condition. As its point of departure, it uses the recent exchange between Guido Erreygers and Adam Wagstaff in this journal, where they discuss merits of their own corrections of the frequently used...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208566
Cover Image
The socioeconomic gradient of obesity in Ireland
Madden, David - 2010
rather than decreased obesity amongst the less well-off. A decomposition of the concentration indices suggest that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292813
Cover Image
The relationship between low birthweight and socioeconomic status in Ireland
Madden, David - 2012
Ireland survey, this paper calculates this index for low birthweight arising from preterm and intrauterine …-growth-retardation. It also carries out a decomposition of this index for the different sources of low birthweight and finds that income … conditions appear to be more relevant for IUGR. The application of the standard Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition also indicates that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293663
Cover Image
Sources of health inequality for Irish women
Madden, David - 2002
This paper calculates the concentration index for self-assessed health for a sample of Irish women. It then decomposes the index to investigate the sources of this inequality using both a health production function and reduced form approach. Using the health production function approach it finds...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333075
Cover Image
Socio-Economic Inequalities in Tobacco Consumption of the Older Adults in China: A Decomposition Method
Si, Yafei; Zhou, Zhongliang; Su, Min; Wang, Xiao; Li, Dan; … - 2018
its decomposition, socio-economic inequalities of tobacco consumption grouped by gender were estimated. The concentration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931673
Cover Image
Extending Decomposition Analysis to Account for Socioeconomic Background: Income-Related Smoking Inequality among Swedish Women
Kjellsson, Gustav - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208697
Cover Image
A New Approach to Decomposition of a Bivariate Rank Dependent Index Using Recentered Influence Function Regression
Heckley, Gawain; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Kjellsson, Gustav - 2015
Decomposition of a bivariate rank dependent index, such as the concentration index, is commonly used to explain … socioeconomic inequalities in health. We introduce a new decomposition technique based on the recentered influence function that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208703
Cover Image
Mental Health and Its Socioeconomic Inequality in Sweden: The Role of Demographic Changes over Time
Linder, Anna; Spika, Devon; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Fritzell, Sara - 2018
decomposition results show that distributional changes in the population explain the increase in suicide inequality and partly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208826
Cover Image
The comparison of catastrophic health expenditure and its inequality between urban and rural households in China
Fu, Xian-zhi - In: Health Economics Review 12 (2022) 1, pp. 1-17
decomposition method of the CI was used to estimate the main influencing factors affecting inequality of CHE incidence. Results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014489829