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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 ...
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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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Investigation on influential factors on chloride concentration index of cement-based materials by pore solution expression method [PDF]
, 2020 In this study, the effects of different factors on chloride concentration index (N-c) of cement paste were studied. The factors including chloride concentration in soaking solution, slag replacement, external applied voltage and cation ions of soaking ...
De Schutter, Geert +3 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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Global Health Action, 2022 Background Over the last two decades, Indonesia has experienced remarkable economic growth. However, the percentage of infants and young children meeting the minimum dietary diversity (MDD) criteria has stagnated.
Bunga A. Paramashanti +3 more
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Child Health Outcome Inequalities in Low and Middle Income Countries
Health Systems & Reform, 2021 Prior to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) era, considerable progress was made toward the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) health indicators.
Patrick Hoang-Vu Eozenou +2 more
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Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 2022 Background: Despite concentrated global efforts to bring about reduction in malnutrition among children, it continues to remain a public health concern, especially in developing countries such as India.
Deboshree Das
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Assessing Intertemporal Socioeconomic Inequalities in Alcohol Consumption in South Africa
Frontiers in Public Health, 2021 Background: This paper assesses changes in the socioeconomic inequality in alcohol consumption by exploring whether alcohol consumption (current and binge drinkers) is more prevalent among the wealthier (pro-rich) or poorer (pro-poor) group over time ...
Mayara Fontes Marx +3 more
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Atmosphere, 2022 Precipitation, as an important part of the hydrological cycle, is often related to flood and drought. In this study, we collected daily rainfall data from 21 rainfall stations in Shaanxi Province from 1961 to 2017, and calculated eight extreme climate ...
Shuangtao Wang +3 more
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Stellar systems following the R^1/m luminosity law, IV : the total energy and the central concentration of galaxies [PDF]
, 2019 We expand our previous analytical and numerical studies of the family of Sérsic models, which are routinely used to describe early-type galaxies and the bulges of spiral galaxies. In particular, we focus on the total energy budget, an important dynamical
Baes, Maarten, Ciotti, Luca
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