background : one of the major health policy issues, in the both developed and developing countries, is the equality in the distribution of health resources. the aim of this study was to investigate the disparity in the distribution of health physical resources across the provinces of iran in 2001 and 2011. methods : this was a cross-sectional retrospective study which investigated inequality in...

This paper introduces the Tog coefficient, which can be used to measure the level of inequality in a cross-tabulation of two ordinal-level variables. The Gini coefficient is a standard measure of income inequality which has been adapted by other authors for use in different contexts such as the measurement of health inequalities and the quantification of occupational segregation; the Tog coeffi...

inequality in the geographic distribution of health workers in the public health sector in iran rezaei s1 (msc), karamimatin b1 (phd), akbari sari a2* (phd) 1research center for environmental determinants of health, kermanshah university of medical sciences, kermanshah, iran. 2deptment of health management and economics, school of public health, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, ir...

A number of studies have shown that inequality is increasing in the rural and urban areas of Nigeria and this can be linked to the growing dimension of poverty. The study focused on analysing inequality and welfare status of rural households in Ekiti State, Nigeria. The result presented was based on primary data collected from a random sample of 240 households selected from four rural communiti...