Dental expenditure, progressivity and horizontal inequality in Chinese adults: based on the 4th National Oral Health Epidemiology Survey [PDF]
BMC Oral Health, 2020 Background The financial burden of oral diseases is a growing concern as the medical expenses rise worldwide. The aim of this study was to investigate the dental expenditure, analyze its progressivity and horizontal inequality under the general health ...
Meng Lin Cheng +13 more
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Income-related inequality and horizontal inequity in healthcare utilization under population aging and labor market changes in Japan [PDF]
International Journal for Equity in HealthBackground Population aging, changes in employment patterns, and widening income disparities have caused concerns about equity in healthcare access within Japan’s universal health insurance system.
Takashi Oshio, Ruru Ping, Ayako Honda
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Approaches to Inequality in EU Social Policy [PDF]
Современная Европа, 2023 The article examines existing approaches to inequality in social policy at the present stage of development of the European social model. The study focuses on the differences between vertical and horizontal, or group, inequality, inequality of ...
Denis I. Kolesov
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Horizontal inequality in the transition to upper secondary education in Spain
Papers, 2022 Effectively maintained inequality theory posits that a reduction in vertical inequality following the expansion of a level of education will be compensated by an increase in horizontal inequality.
Manuel T. Valdés
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Fiscal Decentralisation and Inequality in Indonesia [PDF]
Экономика региона, 2020 The study examined the effect of fiscal decentralisation on both vertical and horizontal inequality in 32 provinces of Indonesia in the period from 2005 to 2014 using several fixed effects (FE) estimations. Moreover, we assessed the mediating role of
Kumba Digdowiseiso +2 more
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Horizontal inequality and multi-sectarian societies
Revista Conjuntura Austral, 2022 After the beginning of the Arab Spring and the conflict in Syria, researchers from all over the world are trying to understand the reasons that led to the civil war in that country.
Danny Zahreddine +1 more
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Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict Through the Prism of Horizontal Inequalities: Theoretical Overview
Banber Erevani Hamalsarani. Sots'iologia, 2022 This paper is a theoretical overview that designs and proposes a novel analytical framework within sociology of conflict for studying the origins of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict at group level.
Hayk Smbatyan
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On the hydrostatic approximation of compressible anisotropic Navier–Stokes equations
Comptes Rendus. Mathématique, 2021 In this work, we obtain the hydrostatic approximation by taking the small aspect ratio limit to the Navier–Stokes equations. The aspect ratio (the ratio of the depth to horizontal width) is a geometrical constraint in general large scale motions meaning ...
Gao, Hongjun +2 more
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A model of horizontal inequality [PDF]
Applied Economics Letters, 2008 The concept of horizontal inequality is generally used in economics to refer to the unequal treatment of equal individuals by the fiscal system. For example, an economic system can treat unequally two individuals who hold identical levels of production factors.
Paul Makdissi +2 more
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Improving Smartphone GNSS Positioning Accuracy Using Inequality Constraints
Remote Sensing, 2023 To improve smartphone GNSS positioning performance using extra inequality information, an inequality constraint method was introduced and verified in this study.
Zihan Peng +4 more
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