Distribution of nursing workforce in the world using Gini coefficient. [PDF]
BMC Nurs, 2023 Introduction Unequal Access to human resources for health, reduces access to healthcare services, worsens the quality of services and reduces health outcomes.
Kharazmi E, Bordbar N, Bordbar S.
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A New Logit-Based Gini Coefficient. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel), 2019 The Gini coefficient is generally used to measure and summarize inequality over the entire income distribution function (IDF). Unfortunately, it is widely held that the Gini does not detect changes in the tails of the IDF particularly well.
Ryu HK, Slottje DJ, Kwon HY.
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The Gini coefficient as a useful measure of malaria inequality among populations. [PDF]
Malar J, 2020 Background Understanding inequality in infectious disease burden requires clear and unbiased indicators. The Gini coefficient, conventionally used as a macroeconomic descriptor of inequality, is potentially useful to quantify epidemiological ...
Abeles J, Conway DJ.
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Employing the Gini coefficient to measure participation inequality in treatment-focused Digital Health Social Networks. [PDF]
Netw Model Anal Health Inform Bioinform, 2016 Digital Health Social Networks (DHSNs) are common; however, there are few metrics that can be used to identify participation inequality. The objective of this study was to investigate whether the Gini coefficient, an economic measure of statistical ...
van Mierlo T, Hyatt D, Ching AT.
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Income Inequality by Gini-Coefficient on Suicide Death in Iran: A Review of National Data. [PDF]
Iran J Public Health, 2019 Background: Research in source of inequality and enhance of knowledge can be reducing the inequalities in the coming decades. Therefore, we aimed to ascertain effects of income inequality measured by Gini-coefficient to death from suicide in Iran ...
Veisani Y +3 more
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Identification of the Differential Effect of City-Level on the Gini Coefficient of Health Service Delivery in Online Health Community. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2019 Inequality of health services for different specialty categories not only occurs in different areas in the world, but also happens in the online service platform.
Yu HY +5 more
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Measuring inequality beyond the Gini coefficient may clarify conflicting findings [PDF]
Nature Human Behaviour, 2022 , Oliver P Hauser, Jon M Jachimowicz
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Introduction of Application of Gini Coefficient to Heart Rate Variability Spectrum for Mental Stress Evaluation. [PDF]
Arq Bras Cardiol, 2019 Background The Gini coefficient is a statistical tool generally used by economists to quantify income inequality. However, it can be applied to any kind of data with unequal distribution, including heart rate variability (HRV).
Sánchez-Hechavarría ME +6 more
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Research on the equity of health resource allocation in TCM hospitals in China based on the Gini coefficient and agglomeration degree: 2009-2018. [PDF]
Int J Equity Health, 2022 Background The demographical and geographical distributions of health resources are important aspects of healthcare access. Few studies have been published on health resource allocation in TCM hospitals in China despite public equity concerns.
Dai G, Li R, Ma S.
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Equity analysis of Chinese physician allocation based on Gini coefficient and Theil index. [PDF]
BMC Health Serv Res, 2021 Background Unequal allocation of medical physician resource represents one of major problems in the current medical service management in China and many other countries.
Yu H, Yu S, He D, Lu Y.
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