O EFEITO DA DISTRIBUIÇÃO DE RENDA SOBRE O ESTADO DE SAÚDE INDIVIDUAL NO BRASIL

Kenya Valeria Micaela de Souza Noronha and Mônica Viegas Andrade

Anais do XXXIII Encontro Nacional de Economia [Proceedings of the 33th Brazilian Economics Meeting] from ANPEC - Associação Nacional dos Centros de Pósgraduação em Economia [Brazilian Association of Graduate Programs in Economics]

Abstract: One of the main social economic problems observed in the majority of countries, in particularly, in the less developed countries, is the high level of income inequality and poverty. In Brazil, these facts are especially important because our country presents one of the worst income distributions in the world that results in a gini coefficient around 0,607. The aim of this paper is to study the relationship between health status and income distribution in Brazil. Specifically, we are interested in evaluate how income distribution impacts individual health status. The methodology used in this work is the logit multilevel model. Our database is PNAD 98 (National Household Survey) that presents a special survey about health status and other related subjects. Our main findings points that income distribution affects individual health status: the higher income distribution the worse individual health status.

JEL-codes: I10 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005

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