ON THE CHOICE OF HEALTH INEQUALITY MEASURE FOR THE LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS OF INCOME-RELATED HEALTH INEQUALITIES
ON THE CHOICE OF HEALTH INEQUALITY MEASURE FOR THE LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS OF INCOME-RELATED HEALTH INEQUALITIES
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DOI：
10.1002/hec.2803
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发表时间：
2013-03-01
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影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Petrie, Dennis
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作者：
Allanson, Paul;Petrie, Dennis
随着时间的推移，与收入相关的健康不平等衡量标准的等级变化可以有效地分解为由于健康结果的变化和个人在收入分配中地位的变化而产生的贡献。本文通过将其嵌入到对健康成就指数变化的更广泛分析中，建立了这种类型的分解的规范性含义。我们进一步表明，健康不平等措施的选择意味着一个特定的垂直公平的判断，这可能是一个共同的规模上表示的健康变化，将不平等的保护的集中指数。我们说明了这种选择的实证意义，报告结果的纵向分析的变化，收入相关的健康不平等在英国使用的浓度，Erreygers和Wagstaff指数的健康程度和浓度指数的健康不足。版权所有（c）2012约翰威利父子有限公司
Changes in rank-dependent income-related health inequality measures over time may usefully be decomposed into contributions due to changes in health outcomes and changes in individuals' positions in the income distribution. This paper establishes the normative implications of this type of decomposition by embedding it within a broader analysis of changes in the health achievement' index. We further show that the choice of health inequality measure implies a particular vertical equity judgement, which may be expressed on a common scale in terms of the concentration index of health changes that would be inequality preserving. We illustrate the empirical implications of this choice by reporting results from a longitudinal analysis of changes in income-related health inequality in Great Britain using the concentration, the Erreygers and Wagstaff indices of health attainments and the concentration index of health shortfalls. Copyright (c) 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.