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 …

health policy makers? By health inequalities we mainly refer to differences in morbidity and mortality between socio …The paper focuses on the following question: What is known about the existence and the extent of health inequalities …, their explanations and potential ways to reduce them, by members of the lower social class, by health professionals and by …

unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health … distributions is ignored. -- Income ; health ; global distribution ; inequality ; poverty …