Semiparametric modeling of age-specific variations in income related health inequalities

Health Economics (United Kingdom)

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 870-878

  Siegel, Martin ^a,c   Mosler, Karl ^b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

age specific variations; concentration index; health inequality; income inequality; semiparametric estimation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONCENTRATION INDEX; FEMALE; GERMANY; GINI INDEX; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMIPARAMETRIC INEQUALITY INDEX; SOCIAL STATUS; VARYING COEFFICIENT MODEL; WAGSTAFF INDEX; AGE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ECONOMIC; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84901976275     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: 10991050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.2947     Document Type: Article

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