We introduce a measure of population health that is sensitive to dispersion in both agespecific health and lifespan …. The measure generalises health-adjusted life expectancy without requiring more data. A transformation of change in the … measure gives a distributionally sensitive monetary valuation of change in population health and disease burden. Application …

BACKGROUND: In recent years, interest in the study of inequalities in health has not stopped at quantifying their … inequalities in self-reported morbidity and self-assessed health in Thailand, and the contributions of different population … subgroups to those inequalities. METHODS: The Health and Welfare Survey 2003 conducted by the Thai National Statistical Office …

unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased …,global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health distributions is …

This paper discusses the many dimensions of health inequality, a multi-faceted concept, which examines the dispersion … in the distribution of health spending, the provision of health services, health capabilities and health outcomes. The … underlying concern is motivated by issues of both social justice and economic efficiency, recognizing health's central role as a …

the National Survey of Households-PNAD COVID-19/IBGE-to quantify the socioeconomic inequality in health during the first … analysis to verify the factors that most influence the inequalities in the specified health variables. We find a positive …

focus on another one, health, and look at its synthetic measure, life expectancy at birth, and its relationship with per … gains depended on economic growth but also on the advancement in medical knowledge. The pace and breadth of the health …