Spatial Health Inequality and Regional Disparities

Regional Disparities and Inequality of Opportunity: The Case of Italy

Regional Disparities and Inequality of Opportunity: The Case of Italy In this paper we provide a new methodology to measure opportunity inequality and to decompose overall inequality in an ”ethically offensive” and an ”ethically acceptable” part. Moreover, we provide some empirical applications of these new evaluation tools: in the first exercise, we compare the income distributions of South an...

Regional Inequality in Iran and the Impact of Economic Factors: A Spatial Econometric Approach

R egional unbalanced growth and the factors affecting it are one of the most important economic issues in developing countries. In this research, after evaluating the regional inequality at the provincial level of Iran, in order to examine the effect of economic factors on it, it was considered as a spatial econometric model using panel data during the period of 2001 to 2015. The evaluatio...

Growing Inequality: Bridging Complex Systems, Population Health and Health Disparities

I sometimes ponder on the practical effect of the many words written on ‘public health’. And then I wonder, perhaps uncharitably, how many are merely a re-hash of what has already been said. So when a new book had not one, but four, concepts in the title, I was tempted to think that there might be something new, perhaps at the intersection of the four. Or was it another re-working of current kn...

Health Care Analysis And Regional Disparities In Different Provinces Of Iran

Evidence for Policy Making: Health Services Access and Regional Disparities in Kerman

Background and purpose: Health indices, regarding to their role in the development of society, are one of the most important indices at national level. Success of national development programs is largely dependent on the establishment of appropriate goals at the health sector, among which access to healthcare facilities is an essential requirement. The aim of this study was to examine the dispa...