Title: Health and inequality /
Authors: Rosa Dias, Pedro; O'Donnell, Owen
Date: 2013
Publisher: Emerald,
Physical description: xxiv, 507 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC class: R
Contents: Lost in translation : rethinking the inequality equivalence criteria for bounded health variables / Gustav Kjellsson, Ulf-G. Gerdtham -- Measuring the inequality of bounded distributions : a joint analysis of attainments and shortfalls / Oihana Aristondo, Casilda Lasso de la Vega -- Measuring health inequality with categorical data : some regional patterns / Joan Costa Font, Frank Cowell -- Inequality and bi-polarization in socioeconomic status and health : ordinal approaches / Bénédicte Apouey, Jacques Silber -- On the measurement of the (multidimensional) inequality of health distributions / Jens Leth Hougaard, Juan D. Moreno-Ternero, Lars Peter Østerdal -- Equity in health and equivalent incomes / Erik Schokkaert ... [et al.] -- Reference value sensitivity of measures of unfair health inequality / Pilar García-Gómez, Erik Schokkaert, Tom Van Ourti -- Accounting for population change in the longitudinal analysis of income-related health inequalities / Paul Allanson, Dennis Petrie -- Regression-based decompositions of rank-dependent indicators of socioeconomic inequality of health / Guido Erreygers, Roselinde Kessels -- Health inequalities through the lens of health-capital theory : issues, solutions, and future directions / Titus J. Galama, Hans van Kippersluis -- The developmental origins of health inequality / Gabriella Conti -- The contribution of occupation to health inequality / Bastian Ravesteijn, Hans van Kippersluis, Eddy van Doorslaer -- Inequality of opportunities in health and the principle of natural reward : evidence from European countries / Damien Bricard ... [et al.] -- Ex-ante and ex-post measurement of inequality of opportunity in health : evidence from Israel / Adi Lazar -- Early life conditions and later life inequality in health / Maarten Lindeboom, Reyn van Ewijk -- Wealth, health, and the measurement of multidimensional inequality : evidence from the Middle East and North Africa / Mohammad Abu-Zaineh, Ramses H. Abul Naga -- Income inequality, health and development in search of a pattern / Therese Nilsson, Andreas Bergh -- Equity in health care delivery : some thoughts and an example / John E. Roemer -- Measuring health inequality in the context of cost-effectiveness analysis / Miqdad Asaria, Susan Griffin, Richard Cookson.