This paper presents a method to compare indices of inequality in health that are based on short-run and long …-run measures of health and income. For pure health inequality (as measured by the Gini coefficient) and income-related health … health mobility inspired by the literature on income mobility. We also show how these measures of mobility can be usefully …

In this paper we measure the degree of income related inequality in mental health as measured by the GHQ instrument and … general health as measured by the EQOL-5D instrument for the Catalan population. We find that income is the main contributor … to inequality, although the share of inequality in mental health that can be explained by income is much greater than the …

This paper reports an analysis of income related health inequalities at the Autonomous Community level in Spain using … the self assessed health measure in the 2001 edition of the Encuesta Nacional de Salud. We use recently developed methods … in order to cardinalise and model self assessed health within a regression framework, decompose the sources of inequality …

This paper reports an analysis of the evolution of income related health inequalities in Spain over the period 1987 …-2001. We use recently developed methods in order to cardinalise and model self assessed health within a regression framework …, decompose the sources of inequality and explain the observed differences between 1987 (one year after the 1986 General Health …

This paper, based on data from the National Population Health Surveys (NPHS) from 1994 to 2007, analyzes the evolution … of social inequalities in health in Quebec since the mid-1990s using two health measures namely self-assessed health (SAH …) and health utility index (HUI). Two methods are used. The first is based on concentration indices and their decompositions …

This paper shows how recently developed regression-based methods for the decomposition of health inequality can be … extended to incorporate heterogeneity in the responses of health to the explanatory variables. We illustrate our method with an … there is an important degree of heterogeneity in the association of health to explanatory variables across birth cohorts and …

This paper presents a method for the measurement of changes in health inequality and income-related health inequality … over time in a population. For pure health inequality (as measured by the Gini coefficient) and income-related health … health mobility inspired by the literature on income mobility. We also show how these measures of mobility can be usefully …