A welfare economics foundation for health inequality measurement
A welfare economics foundation for health inequality measurement
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jhealeco.2006.01.002
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发表时间：
2006-09-01
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
van Doorslaer, Eddy
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作者：
Bleichrodt, Han;van Doorslaer, Eddy
关于衡量健康不平等的实证文献数量庞大且迅速扩大。然而，到目前为止，福利经济学中还不存在衡量健康不平等的拟议措施的基础。本文为健康集中指数、基尼指数、扩展集中指数等常用度量方法提供了依据。我们的结果表明，这些措施需要一些看起来具有限制性的假设。前进的一条路可能是开发多维扩展。(C)2006爱思唯尔B.V.保留所有权利。
The empirical literature on the measurement of health inequalities is vast and rapidly expanding. To date, however, no foundation in welfare economics exists for the proposed measures of health inequality. This paper provides such a foundation for commonly used measures like the health concentration index, the Gini index, and the extended concentration index. Our results indicate that these measures require assumptions that appear restrictive. One way forward may be the development of multi-dimensional extensions. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.