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 …

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 …

the National Survey of Households-PNAD COVID-19/IBGE-to quantify the socioeconomic inequality in health during the first … wave of COVID-19 infections in Brazil. We use the concentration curve, the concentration index, and a decomposition … analysis to verify the factors that most influence the inequalities in the specified health variables. We find a positive …

parental resources during our upbringing that can be influenced by public policy? We study the formation of adult health and … mortality using data on about 21,000 adoptees born between 1940 and 1967. The data include detailed information on both … biological and adopting parents. We find that the health of the biological parents affects the health of their adopted children …

population health exist in the European Union. More than half of this variation remains unexplained after accounting for macro … market factors and income shape the prevalence of poor self-assessed health in the EU. For this purpose, we use a semi …-parametric decomposition approach, which relies on constructing synthetic distributions of health that would prevail in each country if they …

health outcomes in the second generation: mortality, measures based on data on hospitalization and, finally, measures using … persistence in health inequality across generations into pre-birth and post-birth components. We use three sets of measures for … birth outcomes for the third generation. The results show that all of the persistence in mortality is transmitted solely via …