Fleurbaey, Marc; Schokkaert, Erik - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 2, (pp. 1003-1092). 2011
We discuss the conceptual foundations of measuring (in)equity in health and health care. After an overview of the recent developments in the measurement of socioeconomic inequalities and in racial disparities, we show how these partial approaches can be seen as special cases of the more general...