On the measurement of relative and absolute income-related health inequality

Clarke, Philip; Gerdtham, Ulf G.; Johannesson, Magnus; Bingefors, Kerstin; Smith, Len

doi:10.1016/s0277-9536(01)00321-5

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“…Nonetheless, there is still some controversy in the literature regarding which disparity indices meet the most ideal properties (Clarke et al 2002;Erreygers 2009a, b;Wagstaff 2009). Concern also emerged as to how changes in the prevalence of the health variable being measured may affect the disparity estimates (Scanlan 2006;Cheng et al 2008).…”

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Inequity in Dental Care Utilization in the Indonesian Population with a Self-Assessed Need for Dental Treatment

Maharani

2009

Tohoku J. Exp. Med.

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Inequity in Dental Care Utilization in the Indonesian Population with a Self-Assessed Need for Dental Treatment

Maharani

2009

Tohoku J. Exp. Med.

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“…5 However, as pointed out by Kjellsson and Gerdtham (2011), for bounded variables (e.g. mammography screening yes or no) (a) the maximum and minimum value of the CI depends on the average preventive care use in the country (Wagstaff, 2005), (b) the value of the CI depends on the scale of the preventive care variable (Erreygers, 2009a) and (c) the CI may rank countries by inequalities in doing a screening or not differently (Clarke et al, 2002). To account for these problems and to enable comparison of the results for different populations, Erreygers (2009a) and Wagstaff (2005) developed alternative corrections of the CI for bounded variables.…”

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Assessing inequalities in preventive care use in Europe

Carrieri¹,

Wübker²

2013

Health Policy

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“…For example, if we concentrate on distributions x 5 , x 6 and x 7 , we may conclude that x 5 exhibits the lowest headcount ratio, while x 6 and x 7 have the lowest values of inequality and intensity respectively. …”

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“…This difficulty arises not only in poverty measurement but also in different economic fields in which bounded variables are involved. Recent papers (among them Clarke et al [6], Erreygers [7] and Lambert and Zheng [18]) deal with this issue in health measurement. The results derived by Lambert and Zheng [18] may have a straightforward application to the measurement of the inequality among the poor.…”

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The gini index, the dual decomposition of aggregation functions, and the consistent measurement of inequality

Aristondo

García-Lapresta

Vega

et al. 2011

Int. J. Intell. Syst.

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In several economic fields, such as those related to health, education or poverty, the individuals' characteristics are measured by bounded variables. Accordingly, these characteristics may be indistinctly represented by achievements or shortfalls. A difficulty arises when inequality needs to be assessed. One may focus either on achievements or on shortfalls but the respective inequality rankings may lead to contradictory results. Specifically, this paper concentrates on the poverty measure proposed by Sen. According to this measure the inequality among the poor is captured by the Gini index. However, the rankings obtained by the Gini index applied to either the achievements or the shortfalls do not coincide in general. To overcome this drawback, we show that an OWA operator is underlying in the definition of the Sen measure. The dual decomposition of the OWA operators into a self-dual core and anti-self-dual remainder allows us to propose an inequality component which measures consistently the achievement and shortfall inequality among the poor. Keywords AbstractIn several economic fields, such as those related to health, education or poverty, the individuals' characteristics are measured by bounded variables. Accordingly, these characteristics may be indistinctly represented by achievements or shortfalls. A difficulty arises when inequality needs to be assessed. One may focus either on achievements or on shortfalls but the respective inequality rankings may lead to contradictory results. Specifically, this paper concentrates on the poverty measure proposed by Sen. According to this measure the inequality among the poor is captured by the Gini index. However, the rankings obtained by the Gini index applied to either the achievements or the shortfalls do not coincide in general. To overcome this drawback, we show that an OWA operator is underlying in the definition of the Sen measure. The dual decomposition of the OWA operators into a self-dual core and anti-self-dual remainder allows us to propose an inequality component which measures consistently the achievement and shortfall inequality among the poor.

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On the measurement of relative and absolute income-related health inequality

Cited by 118 publications

References 8 publications

Inequity in Dental Care Utilization in the Indonesian Population with a Self-Assessed Need for Dental Treatment

Inequity in Dental Care Utilization in the Indonesian Population with a Self-Assessed Need for Dental Treatment

Assessing inequalities in preventive care use in Europe

The gini index, the dual decomposition of aggregation functions, and the consistent measurement of inequality

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