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 …

health policy makers? By health inequalities we mainly refer to differences in morbidity and mortality between socio …The paper focuses on the following question: What is known about the existence and the extent of health inequalities …, their explanations and potential ways to reduce them, by members of the lower social class, by health professionals and by …