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We present a comprehensive analysis of ex ante inequality of opportunity (IOp) in health among Chinese adults aged 60 … China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) linked with the 2014 CHARLS Life History Survey. We use a range of … for between 3.75% and 29.57% of total health inequality in old age across the range of biomarkers. Shapley …
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investigation. I use data from the third round of India's National Fertility and Health survey to explore these issues. The most …
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psychological distress, measured by the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), before (Waves 9 and the Interim 2019 Wave) and during … their peak level in April and chronic health conditions, housing conditions, and neighbourhood characteristics increased …
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We present a comprehensive analysis of ex ante inequality of opportunity (IOp) in health among Chinese adults aged 60 … China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) linked with the 2014 CHARLS Life History Survey. We use a range of … for between 3.75% and 29.57% of total health inequality in old age across the range of biomarkers. Shapley …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012227917
We develop an empirical approach to analyse, measure and decompose Inequality of Opportunity (IOp) in health, based on …
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This paper analyses the relationship between health and socioeconomic status accounting for the role of breadth and … distributional analysis of the relationship between socioeconomic status and health. Using data from the British Household Panel …. Decomposition analysis of the contribution of components of deprivation to health suggests breadth of deprivation to dominate the …
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This study aims to examine the drivers of inequality of opportunity in health outcome among children below 5 years of … factors, such as random variations in health. The results of the generalized entropy measures indicate that the overall … inequality in child health is high, particularly in poor and conflict-affected regions. The contribution of inequality of …
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of such health inequality measures as the concentration index (CI) depends crucially on the underlying health measure …. The highest degree of inequality is found when dichotomized subjective health measures like health satisfaction or self …-assessed health (SAH) are employed. Measures of medical care usage like doctor visits result in substantially lower concentration …
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This paper aims to investigate the drivers of inequality of opportunity in health outcome among children below 5 years … examine the pattern of child health inequality. The results of the anthropometric measures show that 1.5% of children in … general disparity in child health is low across demographic characteristics. Inequality of opportunity in Tunisia is …
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Until recently, there has been a consensus among empirical health economists that there is an association between … income inequality and individual health, in line with Wilkinson's (1992) idea that the psychosocial effects of the former are … effect of country-level income inequality on individuals' health. It is shown that income inequality, whether measured at the …
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