This study explores global inequality in health status, and decomposes it into within- andbetween-country inequality … with usingincomes across time or place to compare welfare. Our calculation of world height inequalityindicates that in … contrast with similar research on income inequality, within-country variation is thesource of most inequality, rather than the …

distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence … difficult to gauge the magnitude of the contribution this makes to income inequality. Variation in exposure to health risks … inequality. If material advantage can be excercised within the domain of health, then economic inequality will generate health …

interpersonal inequality during 1975-2005 are measured using data from UNU-WIDER’s World Income Inequality Database. In order to … better understand the trends, global interpersonal inequality is decomposed into within-country and between …-country inequality. The paper illustrates that the relationship between global interpersonal inequality and these constituent components …