Inequality Aversion, Health Inequalities, and Health Achievement
The author addresses two issues. First, how can health inequalities be measured so as to take into account policymakers' attitudes toward inequality? The Gini coefficient and the related concentration index embody one particular set of value j...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/01/1687158/inequality-aversion-health-inequalities-health-achievement http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15726 |
| Summary: | The author addresses two issues. First,
how can health inequalities be measured so as to take into
account policymakers' attitudes toward inequality? The
Gini coefficient and the related concentration index embody
one particular set of value judgments. Generalizing these
indexes allows alternative sets of value judgments to be
reflected. And second, how can information on health
inequality be combined with information on the mean of the
relevant distribution to obtain an overall measure of health
"achievement?" Applying the approach developed by
Wagstaff shows how much worse some countries perform when
the focus switches from average health to an achievement
index that also reflects the health gap between the poor and
the better-off. |
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