FRONT COVER -- HEALTH AND INEQUALITY -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I: MEASUREMENT OF HEALTH INEQUALITY -- LOST IN TRANSLATION: RETHINKING THE INEQUALITY EQUIVALENCE CRITERIA FOR BOUNDED HEALTH VARIABLES -- INTRODUCTION -- RETHINKING THE IECS FOR A BOUNDED VARIABLE -- INEQUALITY EQUIVALENCE CRITERIA FOR BOUNDED VARIABLES -- A SURPLUS-SHARING APPROACH -- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX -- MEASURING THE INEQUALITY OF BOUNDED DISTRIBUTIONS: A JOINT ANALYSIS OF ATTAINMENTS AND SHORTFALLS -- INTRODUCTION -- NOTATION AND BASIC DEFINITIONS -- THE ATTAINMENT AND THE SHORTFALL JOINT DISTRIBUTION -- MEASURING INEQUALITY OF THE JOINT DISTRIBUTION -- SOME EXAMPLES -- RANKING THE JOINT DISTRIBUTIONS -- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS -- NOTE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX -- MEASURING HEALTH INEQUALITY WITH CATEGORICAL DATA: SOME REGIONAL PATTERNS -- INTRODUCTION -- APPROACHES TO INEQUALITY MEASUREMENT WITH ORDINAL DATA -- DATA AND METHODS -- RESULTS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX -- INEQUALITY AND BI-POLARIZATION IN SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS AND HEALTH: ORDINAL APPROACHES -- INTRODUCTION -- PREVIOUS LITERATURE -- PRELIMINARIES -- A FIRST APPROACH TO MEASURING INEQUALITY AND BI-POLARIZATION IN INCOME AND HEALTH: DEFINING CONDITIONAL INDICES -- A SECOND APPROACH TO MEASURING INEQUALITY AND BI-POLARIZATION IN INCOME AND HEALTH: OVERALL INDICES -- EMPIRICAL ILLUSTRATION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX A: NUMERICAL EXAMPLE FOR THE FIRST APPROACH TO INEQUALITY/BI-POLARIZATION -- APPENDIX B: METHOD TO COMPUTE THE CONFIDENCE INTERVALS -- ON THE MEASUREMENT OF THE (MULTIDIMENSIONAL) INEQUALITY OF HEALTH DISTRIBUTIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE PRELIMINARIES -- INDICES OF MULTIDIMENSIONAL HEALTH INEQUALITY.

FURTHER INSIGHTS -- DISCUSSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX: PROOFS OF THE THEOREMS -- EQUITY IN HEALTH AND EQUIVALENT INCOMES -- INTRODUCTION -- VALUE JUDGMENTS UNDERLYING THE CONCENTRATION INDEX -- THE EQUIVALENT INCOME AS A MEASURE OF INDIVIDUAL WELL-BEING -- THE MEASUREMENT OF EQUIVALENT INCOMES THROUGH CONTINGENT VALUATION -- COMPARING THE CONCENTRATION INDEX OF HEALTH AND THE INEQUALITY IN EQUIVALENT INCOMES -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- REFERENCE VALUE SENSITIVITY OF MEASURES OF UNFAIR HEALTH INEQUALITY -- INTRODUCTION -- REFERENCE VALUES IN THE THEORY OF FAIR ALLOCATION AND IN THE STANDARDIZED CONCENTRATION INDEX -- REFERENCE-VALUE-CONSISTENT INEQUALITY COMPARISONS -- EMPIRICAL ILLUSTRATION -- CHOOSING THE REFERENCE VALUE WHEN IT INFLUENCES INEQUALITY COMPARISONS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- ACCOUNTING FOR POPULATION CHANGE IN THE LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS OF INCOME-RELATED HEALTH INEQUALITIES -- INTRODUCTION -- METHODS TO ACCOUNT FOR CHANGES IN IRHI USING LONGITUDINAL DATA -- EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- REFERENCES -- REGRESSION-BASED DECOMPOSITIONS OF RANK-DEPENDENT INDICATORS OF SOCIOECONOMIC INEQUALITY OF HEALTH -- INTRODUCTION -- PRELIMINARIES -- ONE-DIMENSIONAL DECOMPOSITIONS -- FROM ONE-DIMENSIONAL TO TWO-DIMENSIONAL DECOMPOSITIONS -- A COMPARISON -- AN EMPIRICAL ILLUSTRATION -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX -- PART II: DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH INEQUALITY -- HEALTH INEQUALITIES THROUGH THE LENS OF HEALTH-CAPITAL THEORY: ISSUES, SOLUTIONS, AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- STYLIZED FACTS ON HEALTH INEQUALITY -- HEALTH-CAPITAL THEORY -- DISCUSSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- THE DEVELOPMENTAL ORIGINS OF HEALTH INEQUALITY -- INTRODUCTION.

SOME STYLIZED FACTS ON THE DEVELOPMENTAL ORIGINS OF HEALTH INEQUALITY -- THE EARLY ORIGINS OF THE EDUCATION-HEALTH GRADIENT -- THE LONG-RUN COSTS OF EARLY LIFE ADVERSITY -- THE LONG-RUN BENEFITS OF ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT -- CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- THE CONTRIBUTION OF OCCUPATION TO HEALTH INEQUALITY -- INTRODUCTION -- PATTERNS OF OCCUPATION AND HEALTH IN THE NETHERLANDS -- THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK -- CORE INSIGHTS AND EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- REFERENCES -- PART III: INEQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY IN HEALTH -- INEQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITIES IN HEALTH AND THE PRINCIPLE OF NATURAL REWARD: EVIDENCE FROM EUROPEAN COUNTRIES -- INTRODUCTION -- METHODS -- DATA -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX -- EX-ANTE AND EX-POST MEASUREMENT OF INEQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY IN HEALTH: EVIDENCE FROM ISRAEL -- INTRODUCTION -- THE HEALTH PRODUCTION FUNCTION -- MEASURING INEQUALITY IN HEALTH OPPORTUNITY -- EMPIRICAL APPLICATION -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX A: LOGIT REGRESSION - DEPENDENT VARIABLE: ATTAINMENT OF, AT LEAST, ONE ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION -- APPENDIX B: LOGIT REGRESSION - DEPENDENT VARIABLE: PROFESSIONAL OR MANAGERIAL JOB -- APPENDIX C: LOGIT REGRESSION - DEPENDENT VARIABLE: NON-SMOKER STATUS -- APPENDIX D: ORDERED LOGIT REGRESSION - DEPENDENT VARIABLE: GOOD OR VERY GOOD SELF-ASSESSED HEALTH -- APPENDIX E: BOUNDS OF THE ORDERED CATEGORIES IN THE HEALTH EQUATION -- APPENDIX F: MEAN LOGARITHMIC DEVIATION DECOMPOSITION -- PART IV: EMPIRICAL STUDIES OF HEALTH INEQUALITY -- EARLY LIFE CONDITIONS AND LATER LIFE INEQUALITY IN HEALTH -- INTRODUCTION -- DATA -- PRENATAL EVENTS AND MORTALITY -- EMPIRICAL ANALYSES ON HEALTH AND INEQUALITY IN HEALTH -- RESULTS -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

REFERENCES -- WEALTH, HEALTH, AND THE MEASUREMENT OF MULTIDIMENSIONAL INEQUALITY: EVIDENCE FROM THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA -- INTRODUCTION -- METHOD -- DECOMPOSITION OF INEQUALITY -- DATA SET AND VARIABLE DEFINITIONS -- EMPIRICAL FINDINGS -- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- INCOME INEQUALITY, HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT - IN SEARCH OF A PATTERN -- INTRODUCTION -- THEORY AND PREVIOUS EMPIRICAL FINDINGS -- DATA AND EMPIRICAL MODEL -- EMPIRICAL RESULTS -- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUDING REMARKS -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX -- PART V: EQUITY IN HEALTH CARE -- EQUITY IN HEALTH CARE DELIVERY: SOME THOUGHTS AND AN EXAMPLE -- INTRODUCTION -- A MORE PRECISE FORMULATION -- AN EXAMPLE -- THE BIGGER PICTURE -- CRITIQUE AND CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX -- MEASURING HEALTH INEQUALITY IN THE CONTEXT OF COST-EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS -- INTRODUCTION -- EXTENDING COST-EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS TO ESTIMATE HEALTH DISTRIBUTIONS -- STYLISED EXAMPLE -- DISCUSSION -- NOTE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- REFERENCES.

This volume contains methodological and empirical research on the measurement and causes of health inequality from leading experts in health economics and economic inequality. It is essential reading for researchers working on health inequality and provides an immediate reconnaissance of the frontiers for those entering this exciting field.

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