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 …

The measurement of health inequalities usually involves either estimating the concentration of health outcomes using an … income-based measure of status or applying conventional inequalitymeasurement 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 …

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 …

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

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 …

-dependent indicators of socioeconomic inequality of health and compare it with a simple ordinary least squares regression. The structural … equation modelling framework, the two-dimensional decomposition integrates the feedback mechanism between health and … modelling approach and its outperformance of ordinary least squares using data from the 2011 Ethiopian Demographic and Health …

This paper explores four alternative indices for measuring health inequalities in a way that takes into account …

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 …

This paper analyses the relationship between health and socioeconomic status accounting for the role of breadth and … distributional analysis of the relationship between socioeconomic status and health. Using data from the British Household Panel …. Decomposition analysis of the contribution of components of deprivation to health suggests breadth of deprivation to dominate the …