Pradhan, Menno; Sahn, David E.; Younger, Stephen D. - Tinbergen Institute - 2001
This study explores global inequality in health status, and decomposes it into within- and between-country inequality …. We rely on standardized height indicators as our health indicator since they avoid the measurement pitfalls of more … traditional measures of health such as morbidity, mortality and life expectancy. They also avoid measurement problems associated …