On decomposing the causes of health sector inequalities with an application to malnutrition inequalities in Vietnam

Journal of Econometrics

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 207-223

  Wagstaff, Adam ^a,b   Van Doorslaer, Eddy ^c   Watanabe, Naoko ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Decomposition; Inequality; Malnutrition; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE; MARKETING; NUTRITION; PUBLIC POLICY;

HEALTH SERVICES; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; MALNUTRITION;

HEALTH;

EID: 0012987472     PISSN: 03044076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4076(02)00161-6     Document Type: Article

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