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A short note revisiting the concentration index: Does the normalization of the concentration index matter? [PDF]
Health Econ, 2022 AbstractThe concentration index, including its normalization, is prominently used to assess socioeconomic inequalities in health and health care. Wagstaff's and Erreygers' normalizations or corrections of the standard concentration index are the most suggested approaches when analyzing binary health variables encountered in many health economics and ...
Ataguba JE.
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Tail index estimation, concentration and adaptivity [PDF]
Electronic Journal of Statistics, 2015 This paper presents an adaptive version of the Hill estimator based on Lespki's model selection method. This simple data-driven index selection method is shown to satisfy an oracle inequality and is checked to achieve the lower bound recently derived by ...
Boucheron, Stéphane, Thomas, Maud
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An experimental test of the concentration index. [PDF]
J Health Econ, 2012 The concentration index is widely used to measure income-related inequality in health. No insight exists, however, whether the concentration index connects with people's preferences about distributions of income and health and whether a reduction in the concentration index reflects an increase in social welfare. We explored this question by testing the
Bleichrodt H, Rohde KI, Van Ourti T.
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COVID-19 vaccine intercountry distribution inequality and its underlying factors: a combined concentration index analysis and multiple linear regression analysis [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthIntroductionInequitable access to COVID-19 vaccines among countries is a pressing global health issue. Factors such as economic power, political power, political stability, and health system strength contribute to disparities in vaccine distribution ...
Wafa Abu El Kheir-Mataria +4 more
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Concentration of the Kirchhoff index for Erdos-Renyi graphs [PDF]
Systems & Control Letters, 2014 Given an undirected graph, the resistance distance between two nodes is the resistance one would measure between these two nodes in an electrical network if edges were resistors.
Boumal, Nicolas, Cheng, Xiuyuan
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Socioeconomic inequalities in metabolic syndrome and its components in a sample of Iranian Kurdish adults [PDF]
Epidemiology and Health, 2023 OBJECTIVES The worldwide incidence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) has increased in recent decades. In this study, we investigated the socioeconomic inequalities associated with MetS and its components in a sample of the Iranian Kurdish population.
Pardis Mohammadzadeh +5 more
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Consolidation of the Banking Sector: Determinants and Consequences [PDF]
Problemi Ekonomiki, 2021 The article aims at substantiating the theoretical and methodological foundations of research in bank consolidation and assessing its consequences in order to identify the relationship between consolidation and the banking market structure.
Krasnova Iryna V. +2 more
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The Temporal and Spatial Changes of Health Inequality in Rural China
Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 This article estimates the temporal and spatial changes of health inequality in rural China from 2010 to 2018. Based on a panel database of 29,616 rural residents, the Health Utility Index (HUI) and a spatial econometric model are used for analysis.
Jinqi Jiang +3 more
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Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural, 2020 : In the early 2000s, sugarcane experienced high growth in Brazil and Mato Grosso do Sul experienced the highest growth, with a 398%% increase. We analysed the impact of the sugarcane industry on formal employment and wages in Mato Grosso do Sul between ...
Lilliane Renata Defante +2 more
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Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022 The full coverage policy for essential medicines (FCPEMs) was proposed and implemented in Taizhou city of Zhejiang Province, China, to promote equal access and adherence to medicines.
Zhigang Guo +9 more
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