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On correcting the concentration index for binary variables

Kjellsson, Gustav; Gerdtham, Ulf-G. - In: Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013) 3, pp. 659-670

This article discusses measurement of socioeconomic inequalities in the prevalence of a health condition, in response to the recent exchange between Guido Erreygers and Adam Wagstaff, in which they discuss the merits of their own corrections to the frequently used concentration index. We first...

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Correcting the Concentration Index for Binary Variables

Kjellsson, Gustav; Gerdtham, Ulf-G - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2011

This paper discusses measurement of socioeconomic inequalities in prevalence of a health condition. As its point of departure, it uses the recent exchange between Guido Erreygers and Adam Wagstaff in this journal, where they discuss merits of their own corrections of the frequently used...

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Measuring Socioeconomic Inequality in Health, Health Care and Health Financing by Means of Rank-Dependent Indices: A Recipe for Good Practice

Erreygers, Guido; Ourti, Tom Van - Tinbergen Institute - 2010

The tools to be used and other choices to be made when measuring socioeconomic inequalities with rank-dependent inequality indices have recently been debated in this journal. This paper adds to this debate by stressing the importance of the measurement scale, by providing formal proofs of...

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Health contingent income transfers. Are they relevant?

Brekke, Kjell Arne; Kverndokk, Snorre - Helseøkonomisk Forskningsprogram (HERO), Universitetet … - 2014

This paper is an extension of Brekke and Kverndokk (2014), which showed that a limited income transfers from a rich to a poor, both with equal health, will increase the concentration index. In this paper we will demonstrate that such health contingent income transfers are implicit in linear...

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The socioeconomic gradient of obesity in Ireland

Madden, David - 2010

rather than decreased obesity amongst the less well-off. A decomposition of the concentration indices suggest that the …

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The relationship between low birthweight and socioeconomic status in Ireland

Madden, David - 2012

Ireland survey, this paper calculates this index for low birthweight arising from preterm and intrauterine …-growth-retardation. It also carries out a decomposition of this index for the different sources of low birthweight and finds that income … conditions appear to be more relevant for IUGR. The application of the standard Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition also indicates that …

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Sources of health inequality for Irish women

Madden, David - 2002

This paper calculates the concentration index for self-assessed health for a sample of Irish women. It then decomposes the index to investigate the sources of this inequality using both a health production function and reduced form approach. Using the health production function approach it finds...

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Socio-Economic Inequalities in Tobacco Consumption of the Older Adults in China: A Decomposition Method

Si, Yafei; Zhou, Zhongliang; Su, Min; Wang, Xiao; Li, Dan; … - 2018

its decomposition, socio-economic inequalities of tobacco consumption grouped by gender were estimated. The concentration …

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Extending Decomposition Analysis to Account for Socioeconomic Background: Income-Related Smoking Inequality among Swedish Women

Kjellsson, Gustav - 2014

This article suggests an extension of the standard decomposition of the concentration index that allows for an … for one vital health-related behavior, smoking. The decomposition uses an underlying model that considers both individual …

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A New Approach to Decomposition of a Bivariate Rank Dependent Index Using Recentered Influence Function Regression

Heckley, Gawain; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Kjellsson, Gustav - 2015

Decomposition of a bivariate rank dependent index, such as the concentration index, is commonly used to explain … socioeconomic inequalities in health. We introduce a new decomposition technique based on the recentered influence function that …

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