Measuring health inequalities using the concentration index approach
Författare
Redaktör
- Anthony J. Culyer
Summary, in English
This article briefly reviews the recent discussion on how to use different versions of the concentration index to measure socioeconomic health inequalities; the appropriateness of the different versions depends on the measurement properties of the health variable and the intended value judgment. Using the European Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement, the article also empirically illustrates the guidelines for practitioners.
Publiceringsår
2014
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
240-246
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Encyclopedia of Health Economics
Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i uppslagsverk
Förlag
Elsevier
Ämne
- Economics
Nyckelord
- absolute inequalities
- bounded variables
- concentration index
- health inequality
- mirror condition
- relative inequalities
- scale invariance
- socioeconomic health inequality
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISBN: 978-0-12-375679-4