Avoiding Blindness to Health Status in Health Achievement and Health Inequality Measurement

Paul Makdissi () and Myra Yazbeck ()

No 542, Discussion Papers Series from University of Queensland, School of Economics

Abstract: This paper argues that health transfers from an individual at a lower rank in the health distribution to a person at a higher rank may decrease the concentration index if the former has a slightly higher income. The concentration index, being mainly focused on the socioeconomic dimension of health inequality, can produce such counter-intuitive results that overlooks the pure health inequality aversion of the planner. Building on Atkinson (1970), Yitzhaki (1983) and Wagstaff (2002), this paper presents a simple new class of health achievement and health inequality indices that overcomes the above mentioned problem.

Keywords: Health inequality; Health Achievement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 I10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-04-23
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