Using a MIMIC model with structural equations and two synthetic health scores, this study attempts to explore the … impact of the measurement of health status on socioeconomic inequalities in health. The results showed satisfactory internal … Physical Component Summary and Mental Component Summary calculated from the Short Form health survey (SF-12) items showed the …

opportunity in child health inequality. The latter is decomposed into within opportunity inequality and the between opportunity … total health inequality experienced a decrease between 1998 and 2013 from 0.65 to 0.26 in 15 years unlike the inequality of … influence child health. Considering the results, the increase in the level of inequality of health opportunity would come more …

Europe aims at combining income growth with improvements in social cohesion as measured by income and health … growth and the income responsiveness of health. We investigate whether these conditions held in Europe in the nineties using … decompositions to demonstrate that (i) in all countries except Austria, the income elasticity of health is positive and increases …