Measuring Inequality in Health

Bénédicte Apouey; Jacques Silber

doi:10.1007/978-981-19-2023-3_7

Measuring Inequality in Health

Bénédicte Apouey, Jacques Silber

Department of Economics

Ecole d'économie de Paris

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Abstract

The burden of poor health is greater among poorer social groups throughout the world. Measuring inequalities in health and understanding their origins are a prerequisite for implementing an efficient policy aiming at reducing inequalities. In this chapter, we present the literature on the measurement of health inequalities, distinguishing between cardinal and ordinal health variables and between the univariate and bivariate approaches. A number of empirical illustrations from the recent literature, which highlight important factors that could serve as targets to improve equality, is also presented.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Advances in Economic Measurement
Subtitle of host publication	A Volume in Honour of D. S. Prasada Rao
Publisher	Springer Nature
Pages	307-348
Number of pages	42
ISBN (Electronic)	9789811920233
ISBN (Print)	9789811920226
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2023-3_7
State	Published - 1 Jan 2022

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Empirical illustrations
Measurement
Normative issues
Overall health inequality
Social health inequality

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