A welfare economics foundation for health inequality measurement
September 2006
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volume 25, issue 5 pp 945-957.
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The empirical literature on the measurement of health inequalities is vast and rapidly expanding. To date, however, no foundation in welfare economics exists for the proposed measures of health inequality. This paper provides such a foundation for commonly used measures like the health concentration index, the Gini index, and the extended concentration index. Our results indicate that these measures require assumptions that appear restrictive. One way forward may be the development of multi-dimensional extensions.
Keywords
- Gini Index
- concentration index
- achievement index
- health inequality measurement
- preference foundation
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Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) Classification System
- D63 : Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
- I10 : Health: General
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- health
- inequality
- index
- concentration index
- condition
- transfer
- health transfers
- principle
- gini index
- concentration
- welfare
- profile
- measure
- health inequality
- income-related health transfers
- status
- population
- gini condition
- welfare function
- measurement
