Estimates of health inequality among Russians

A. R. Khabibullina (), Ekaterina Aleksandrova and Andrey Aistov

Voprosy Ekonomiki, 2021, issue 3

Abstract: The paper analyses income-related health inequality in Russia using empirical estimates of mean values of several health indicators and related cumulative curves and concentration indices estimates made on the RLMS-HSE 2018 data. The study has revealed that (1) the proportion of people with poor health is higher in the groups of respondents with low income; (2) having a higher education impacts on self-assessed but not on the other more objective health indicators; (3) inequality in health, measured in terms of individual income, is higher among men than among women, and, conversely, inequality in access to health services is higher among women; (4) continuous/ordered health indicators produce lower inequality values compared with dichotomized indicators. The methodology and estimates presented in the paper can be recommended as controls for health and related programs results.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.32609/0042-8736-2021-3-117-138

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