Adult BMI as a Health and Nutritional Inequality Measure: Applications at Macro and Micro Levels

Molini, Vasco; Nube, M.; Boom, Bart van den

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.12.003

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“…Examples of interventions include: cervical cancer screening, immunisations and primary health care quality improvements. Lyratzopoulos et al (2010) documents further such a case for cancer survival between 1973 and 2004. They find evidence of an ‘inequality-equality’ lag cycle, primarily due to the rate of diffusion of new treatments among individuals with different socioeconomic status.…”

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A Health ‘Kuznets’ Curve’? Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Evidence on Concentration Indices’

2017

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The distribution of income related health inequalities appears to exhibit changing patterns when both developing countries and developed countries are examined. This paper tests for the existence of a health Kuznets’ curve; that is, an inverse U-shape pattern between economic developments (as measured by GDP per capita) and income-related health inequalities (as measured by concentration indices). We draw upon both cross sectional (the World Health Survey) and a long longitudinal (the European Community Household Panel survey) dataset. Our results suggest evidence of a health Kuznets’ curve on per capita income. We find a polynomial association where inequalities decline when GDP per capita reaches a magnitude ranging between $26,000 and $38,700. That is, income-related health inequalities rise with GDP per capita, but tail off once a threshold level of economic development has been attained.

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“…Molini et al (2010) estimate an association between the Human Development Index (HDI) and the concentration index of BMI in developing countries using quadratic specifications. Importantly, they find an inverted-U relationship between inequalities in BMI and HDI for Vietnam.…”

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A Health ‘Kuznets’ Curve’? Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Evidence on Concentration Indices’

2017

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“…Similarly Molini et al . () used BMI to explore who was the primary beneficiary of Vietnam's economic growth.…”

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“…This "stylized fact" underpins an emerging literature which uses body mass index (BMI) as a direct marker of economic well-being (Araar et al, 2009;Sahn and Younger, 2009;Molini et al, 2010). Critical to the success of that strategy is the idea that the relationship between BMI and economic well-being is nondecreasing.…”

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“…On the other hand it seems clear that across countries obesity is positively correlated with income. Indeed in developing countries it is typically the case that high body mass is associated with more affluent individuals (Sobal and Stunkard, 1989;McLaren, 2007).This "stylized fact" underpins an emerging literature which uses body mass index (BMI) as a direct marker of economic well-being (Araar et al, 2009;Sahn and Younger, 2009;Molini et al, 2010). Critical to the success of that strategy is the idea that the relationship between BMI and economic well-being is nondecreasing.…”

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The Weight of Success: The Body Mass Index and Economic Well‐Being in Southern Africa

Wittenberg

2013

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We show that body mass increases with economic resources among most Southern Africans, although not all. Among Black South Africans the relationship is non-decreasing over virtually the entire range of incomes/wealth. Furthermore in this group other measures of “success” (e.g., employment and education) are also associated with increases in body mass. This is true in both 1998 (the Demographic and Health Survey) and 2008 (National Income Dynamics Survey). A similar relationship holds among residents of Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique, Malawi, and Namibia. This suggests that body mass can be used as a crude measure of well-being. This allows us to examine the vexed question in South African labor economics whether there is involuntary unemployment. The fact that the unemployed are lighter than the employed, even when we control for household fixed effects, suggests that they are not choosing this state.

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Subjective Wellbeing Inequality Between Cohabiting Partners: Does a Household Kuznets Curve Exist?

Kollamparambil

2021

J Happiness Stud

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Adult BMI as a Health and Nutritional Inequality Measure: Applications at Macro and Micro Levels

Cited by 21 publications

References 32 publications

A Health ‘Kuznets’ Curve’? Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Evidence on Concentration Indices’

A Health ‘Kuznets’ Curve’? Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Evidence on Concentration Indices’

The Weight of Success: The Body Mass Index and Economic Well‐Being in Southern Africa

Subjective Wellbeing Inequality Between Cohabiting Partners: Does a Household Kuznets Curve Exist?

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