Measuring total health inequality: Adding individual variation to group-level differences

International Journal for Equity in Health

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages 1-12

  Gakidou, Emmanuela ^a   King, Gary ^b  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Child mortality; Extended beta binomial model; Health inequality; Risk of death

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 1542564366     PISSN: 14759276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-9276-1-1     Document Type: Article

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