Measuring Inequality in Health

Bénédicte Apouey and Jacques Silber

Chapter Chapter 7 in Advances in Economic Measurement, 2022, pp 307-348 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The burden of poor health is greater among poorer social groups throughout the world. Measuring inequalities in health and understanding their origins are a prerequisite for implementing an efficient policy aiming at reducing inequalities. In this chapter, we present the literature on the measurement of health inequalities, distinguishing between cardinal and ordinal health variables and between the univariate and bivariate approaches. A number of empirical illustrations from the recent literature, which highlight important factors that could serve as targets to improve equality, is also presented.

Keywords: Overall health inequality; Social health inequality; Measurement; Normative issues; Empirical illustrations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 I1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-2023-3_7

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