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 …