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 …

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 …

In this paper we measure the degree of socio economic inequality in both mental health and general health for the … Catalan population. We find that income is the main contributor to inequality, especially in the case of mental health. The … regional variations in both health measures are striking, with the Barcelona districts faring relatively bad and Lleida being …

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 …

Most would agree that priority setting is necessary to avoid a financial collapse in the health sector. It is much … a reason hyprefernce-based methods for evaluations of different health states are not as common and popular as they …