wealth. However, health status is generally measured as a categorical variable expressing a qualitative order. Traditional … policy analysis. We also bring to the data a recently proposed approach to measuring self-reported health inequality that … meets both rigorous and practical considerations. We draw upon the World Health Survey data to examine alternative pragmatic …

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 …