methods for making health inequality comparisons. Findings suggest significant differences in health inequality measurement … wealth. However, health status is generally measured as a categorical variable expressing a qualitative order. Traditional … independent. We argue that the way status is conceptualized has important theoretical implications for measurement as well as for …

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 …

Approaches to measuring health inequalities are often problematic in that they use methods that are inappropriate for … categorical data. The approach here focuses on "pure" or univariate health inequality (rather than income-related or bivariate … health inequality) and is based on a concept of individual status that allows a consistent treatment of such data. We use …

We study how measures of socioeconomic health inequality inform about welfare inequality. We argue that transfers of … either income or health from a better off to a worse off individual should reduce welfare inequality. Lacking an objective … income, health or socioeconomic health. This puts restrictions on measures of socioeconomic health inequality, where a …