Inequality aversion, health inequalities, and health achievement
By: Adam Wagstaff.
Contributors: Montenegro, Claudio.; World Bank. Development Research Group. Public Services.; World Bank. Human Development Network. Health, Nutrition, and Population Team.
Series: Policy research working paper ;; 2765; Policy research working papers (Online) ;; 2765.
Publisher: World Bank, Development Research Group, Public Services, and, Human Development Network, Health, Nutrition, and Population Team
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Health status indicators.; Equality -- Health aspects.; Social classes -- Health aspects.; Public health.; Medical care.
Description: This paper shows how value judgments can be explicitly recognized in measuring health ineqalities between the poor and the better-off, and how such inequalities can be included in assessments of countries' health indicators.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 19-21).
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.