Handbook on Health Inequality Monitoring

Modelling health, income and income inequality: the impact of income inequality on health and health inequality.

A framework is developed to analyse the impact of the distribution of income on individual health and health inequality, with individual health modelled as a function of income and the distribution of income. It is demonstrated that the impact of income inequality can generate non-concave health production functions resulting in a non-concave health production possibility frontier. In this cont...

On health inequality.

attributable to differences in these potential confounding variables. Although we were unable to present the numerical results of these analyses because of space constraints, we do refer to them in the paper. Although we were concerned about the impact of the low response rate and our chosen comparison population on the interpretation of our data we, like Dr Mindell, were sufficiently convinced...

National health inequality monitoring: current challenges and opportunities

National health inequality monitoring needs considerably more investment to realize equity-oriented health improvements in countries, including advancement towards the Sustainable Development Goals. Following an overview of national health inequality monitoring and the associated resource requirements, we highlight challenges that countries may encounter when setting up, expanding or strengthen...

Area-based units of analysis for strengthening health inequality monitoring

Perspectives Inequalities in health persist worldwide and one of the starting points for remedial action is collecting data that reveal patterns of inequality. Current discussions about the best ways of monitoring health inequalities emphasize disaggregating data by variables such as socioeconomic status, geographical area or sex. The sustainable development goals (SDGs) adopted in 2015 include...

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