There is still much uncertainty about the impact of income inequality on health and mortality. Some studies have … inequality in the municipality of residence, measured by the Gini coefficient, affected mortality in men and women aged 30-89 in … about the existence of harmful health effects of income inequality, and especially in a Nordic context. …

by remarkable progress in poverty reduction and a betterment of social indicators like health and education. In … more acute in Thailand and with the wake of unemployment and decrease in real wages, income inequality increased both in …, dropouts and health. It is observed that the crisis has exposed significant limitations in the ability of social safety nets to …

Research on the effects of socioeconomic well-being on health is important for policy makers in developing countries …, where limited resources make it crucial to use existing health care resources to the best advantage. This paper develops and … tests a set of measures of socioeconomic status indicators for predicting health status in developing countries. We …

thinking about how income dispersion and mortality might be related and suggest that income inequality gas a number of social … health of its people -independent of how wealthy a society is in absolute terms. In this paper, we review the current …

This paper describes the pattern of reductions in mortality across Brazilian municipalities between 1970 and 2000, and … expectancy has shifted consistently in the recent past. But reductions in mortality within Brazil have been more homogeneously … in mortality. The results suggest that gains in life expectancy had a welfare value equivalent to 39% of the growth in …

We investigate whether changes in economic inequality affect mortality in rich countries. To answer this question we … use a new source of data on income inequality: tax data on the share of pretax income going to the richest 10 percent of … the population in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland …

Using data from the Human Mortality Database (HMD), the paper analyzes the increase in the life expectancy of the … progress in terms of increasing life expectancy. Within the theoretical context of Health Transition, the authors provide a … brief description of the Spanish mortality during the XXth century across several indexes. The study uses a decomposition …

Curve and some of its properties make it an interesting alternative to the Gini index. Like most other inequality measures …Zenga’s new inequality curve and index are two recent tools for measuring inequality. Proposed in 2007, they should … index relative to the Gini index are discussed. Copyright Springer-Verlag 2012 …

In this paper, we apply a multidimensional decomposition of the Gini index to the active and retired populations in … France. The multi-decomposition of an inequality measure allows us to put into perspective the role of social spending and …. However, we question the extent to which this multidimensional inequality indicator is a relevant tool for the study of …