This paper offers a critical appraisal of the various methods employed to date to measure
inequalities in health. It suggests that only two of these—the slope index of inequality and …

▪ Abstract This paper reviews the large and growing body of literature on the apparently
negative effects of income inequality on population health. Various hypotheses are identified …

The paper surveys the economics literature on equity in health care financing and delivery.
The focus is, for the most part, on empirical work, especially that involving international and …

Have gaps in health outcomes between the poor and better off grown? Are they larger in
one country than another? Are health sector subsidies more equally distributed in some …

This paper clarifies the relationship between two widely used indices of health inequality
and explains why these are superior to others indices used in the literature. It also develops …

Inequalities across the income distribution in a variable y can be decomposed into their
causes, and changes in inequality in y can be decomposed into the effects of changes in the …

Background: Most of the member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development (OECD) aim to ensure equitable access to health care. This is often …

This paper presents evidence on income-related inequalities in self-assessed health in nine
industrialized countries. Health interview survey data were used to construct concentration …

Background Conventional estimates of poverty do not take account of out-of-pocket
payments to finance health care. We aimed to reassess measures of poverty in 11 low-to …

This paper presents a comparison of horizontal equity in health care utilization in 10
European countries and the US. It does not only extend previous work by using more recent …