Avoiding blindness to health status in health achievement and health inequality measurement.

نویسندگان

  • Paul Makdissi
  • Myra Yazbeck
چکیده

The concentration index, being focused on the socioeconomic dimension of health inequality and overlooking aversion to pure health inequality, can produce ethically contestable rankings of health distributions. A health transfer from a sicker but richer individual to healthier but poorer individual will decrease the concentration index. This paper presents a new class of health inequality indices that avoid this limitation by trading off socioeconomic-related health inequality against pure health inequality.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Social science & medicine

دوره 171  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2016