"Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who in this land is fairest of all?" -Distributional sensitivity in the measurement of socioeconomic inequality of health

Journal of Health Economics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 257-270

  Erreygers, Guido ^a   Clarke, Philip ^b   Van Ourti, Tom ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d TINBERGEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Distributional sensitivity; Extended concentration index; Health inequality; Small sample bias; Socioeconomic inequality

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; HEALTH CARE; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

ARTICLE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISTRIBUTIONAL SENSITIVITY; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH ECONOMICS; MORTALITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; PRENATAL CARE; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84858072804     PISSN: 01676296     EISSN: 18791646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2011.10.009     Document Type: Article

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