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A Short Note Revisiting the Concentration Index: Does the Normalization of the Concentration Index Matter? [PDF]
Health Economics (United Kingdom), 2022 Abstract The 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 ...
John Ataguba
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An experimental test of the concentration index [PDF]
Journal of Health Economics, 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, Han +2 more
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Correcting the Concentration Index [PDF]
Journal of Health Economics, 2009 In recent years attention has been drawn to several shortcomings of the Concentration Index, a frequently used indicator of the socioeconomic inequality of health. Some modifications have been suggested, but these are only partial remedies. This paper proposes a corrected version of the Concentration Index which is superior to the original ...
Erreygers, Guido
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Correcting the Concentration Index: A Comment
Journal of Health Economics, 2009 In a recent article in this journal, Erreygers [Erreygers, G., 2008. Correcting the concentration index. Journal of Health Economics] has proposed a new measure of income-related health inequality to overcome three shortcomings of the concentration index (CI).
Adam Wagstaff
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A New Industry Concentration Index [PDF]
Economic Papers: A journal of applied economics and policy, 2015 We propose and analyse a new concentration index alternative to the Herfindahl‐Hirschman Index (HHI). This new index emphasises the concept of competitive balance. It is designed to preserve the convexity property of the HHI when a merger involves one of the m largest firms, but to decrease and thus to indicate an increase in competition when a merger ...
Anbarci, N., Katzman, B.
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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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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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Income-related health inequality among rural residents in western China
Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 ObjectiveHealth equality has drawn much public attention in both developed and developing countries. China, the largest developing country, has implemented a new round of health system reform to improve health equality since 2009.
Chaofan Li, Chaofan Li, Chengxiang Tang
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