Health and inequality / edited by Pedro Rosa Dias, Owen O'Donnell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rosa Dias, Pedro.

O'Donnell, Owen. (Owen A.)

Series:

Research on economic inequality ; 21.

Research on economic inequality, 1049-2585 ; 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical economics.

Income distribution.

Equality--Health aspects.

Equality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (532 p.)

Edition:

1版.

Place of Publication:

Bingley : Emerald, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Economists are increasingly turning their attention to the measurement and causes of health inequality. This is in response to widespread concern that health disparities reflect social injustices but is also part of the trend away from the narrow focus on inequality in income to the more encompassing analysis of inequality in well-being. Researchers interested in the extent and causes of variation in well-being cannot but turn their analytical gaze on health inequalities. This volume contains methodological and empirical contributions from leading experts in health economics and economic inequality that add further momentum to a thriving field of research. The focus is on methods for the measurement of health inequalities (income-related, multidimensional and inequalities of opportunity) as well as the analysis of their causes. The collection is essential reading for researchers already working on health inequality and provides an immediate reconnaissance of the frontiers for those entering this exciting field.

Contents:

Lost in translation : rethinking the inequality equivalence criteria for bounded health variables / Gustav Kjellsson, Ulf-G. Gerdtham

Measuring the inequality of bounded distributions : a joint analysis of attainments and shortfalls / Oihana Aristondo, Casilda Lasso de la Vega

Measuring health inequality with categorical data : some regional patterns / Joan Costa Font, Frank Cowell

Inequality and bi-polarization in socioeconomic status and health : ordinal approaches / Bénédicte Apouey, Jacques Silber

On the measurement of the (multidimensional) inequality of health distributions / Jens Leth Hougaard, Juan D. Moreno-Ternero, Lars Peter Østerdal

Equity in health and equivalent incomes / Erik Schokkaert ... [et al.]

Reference value sensitivity of measures of unfair health inequality / Pilar García-Gómez, Erik Schokkaert, Tom Van Ourti

Accounting for population change in the longitudinal analysis of income-related health inequalities / Paul Allanson, Dennis Petrie

Regression-based decompositions of rank-dependent indicators of socioeconomic inequality of health / Guido Erreygers, Roselinde Kessels

Health inequalities through the lens of health-capital theory : issues, solutions, and future directions / Titus J. Galama, Hans van Kippersluis

The developmental origins of health inequality / Gabriella Conti

The contribution of occupation to health inequality / Bastian Ravesteijn, Hans van Kippersluis, Eddy van Doorslaer

Inequality of opportunities in health and the principle of natural reward : evidence from European countries / Damien Bricard ... [et al.]

Ex-ante and ex-post measurement of inequality of opportunity in health : evidence from Israel / Adi Lazar

Early life conditions and later life inequality in health / Maarten Lindeboom, Reyn van Ewijk

Wealth, health, and the measurement of multidimensional inequality : evidence from the Middle East and North Africa / Mohammad Abu-Zaineh, Ramses H. Abul Naga

Income inequality, health and development in search of a pattern / Therese Nilsson, Andreas Bergh

Equity in health care delivery : some thoughts and an example / John E. Roemer

Measuring health inequality in the context of cost-effectiveness analysis / Miqdad Asaria, Susan Griffin, Richard Cookson.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record

ISBN:

9781781905548

1781905541

OCLC:

868234595