Inequality measurement for ordered response health data

Journal of Health Economics

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1614-1625

  Abul Naga, Ramses H ^a   Yalcin, Tarik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Inequality measures; Inequality orderings; Self reported health status

Indexed keywords

HEALTH MONITORING; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; NUMERICAL METHOD;

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SELF REPORT;

ALGORITHMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 55149110753     PISSN: 01676296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2008.07.015     Document Type: Article

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