We present a comprehensive analysis of ex ante inequality of opportunity (IOp) in health among Chinese adults aged 60 … for between 3.75% and 29.57% of total health inequality in old age across the range of biomarkers. Shapley … China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) linked with the 2014 CHARLS Life History Survey. We use a range of …

We develop an empirical approach to analyse, measure and decompose Inequality of Opportunity (IOp) in health, based on … differ in terms of their observed circumstances. Decomposition analysis shows that about two-thirds of the total inequality …

People in Canada and the U.S. often make claims regarding whose country has a better health system. Several researchers … have attempted to address this question by analysing subjective health in the two countries, thus assuming a common … definition of “good” health. Using data from the Joint Canada/U.S. Survey of Health, I generate quasi-objective health indices …

We introduce a measure of population health that is sensitive to dispersion in both agespecific health and lifespan …. The measure generalises health-adjusted life expectancy without requiring more data. A transformation of change in the … measure gives a distributionally sensitive monetary valuation of change in population health and disease burden. Application …

The paper surveys the economics literature on equity in health care financing and delivery. The focus is, for the most … discussion of the concept and definition of equity. The empirical sections cover the literature on equity in health care … financing (progressivity and horizontal equity of health care financing arrangements), equity in health care delivery …