Extending the income inequality hypothesis: Ecological results from the 2005 and 2009 Argentine National Risk Factor Surveys

Global Public Health

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 635-647

  de Maio, Fernando G ^a   Linetzky, Bruno ^b   Ferrante, Daniel ^b   Fleischer, Nancy L ^c  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Ministerio de Salud de la Nacion   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Argentina; Correlation; Generalised Entropy index; Gini coefficient; Income inequality

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CONSTANTS AND COEFFICIENTS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCOME; INCOME INEQUALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SELF CONCEPT; ADULT; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; MALE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; SELF REPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ARGENTINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS; SELF REPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84866446195     PISSN: 17441692     EISSN: 17441706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2012.663399     Document Type: Article

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