GLOSSARY

Measures of health inequalities: part 2

Enrique Regidor

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Dr E Regidor
Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain; enriqueregidor{at}hotmail.com

This is the second part of a two part glossary on measures of health inequalities.

Abbreviations: BMI, body mass index; RII, relative index of inequality; SII, slope index of inequality

Keywords: inequality

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