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PLoS ONE, 2021 BackgroundIt is of interest to explore the variability in how the COVID-19 pandemic evolved geographically during the first twelve months. To this end, we apply inequality indices over regions to incidences, infection related mortality, and infection ...
Kirsi M Manz, Ulrich Mansmann
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Mapping socioeconomic inequalities in malaria in Sub-Sahara African countries
Scientific Reports, 2021 Despite reductions in malaria incidence and mortality across Sub-Saharan (SSA) countries, malaria control and elimination efforts are currently facing multiple global challenges such as climate and land use change, invasive vectors, and disruptions in ...
Gabriel Carrasco-Escobar +2 more
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BMC Public Health, 2019 Background The slope (SII) and relative (RII) indices of inequality are commonly recommended to monitor health inequality policies. As an upwards shift of the educational level distribution (ELD) can be part of those policies, we examine how such a shift
Françoise Renard +3 more
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International Journal for Equity in Health, 2021 Background Information on socioeconomic inequalities in physical activity over time is sparse in low- to middle-income countries. In this study, we examined trends in physical activity educational inequalities in adults from Brazil between 2013 and 2019.
Gerson Ferrari +4 more
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Measuring Inequality of Opportunity: Does Inequality Index Matter? [PDF]
Statistika: Statistics and Economy Journal, 2021 The equal opportunity theory is based on the idea that it is important to distinguish between two sources of inequality: the inequality caused by factors outside an individual's control (inequality of opportunity) and the inequality generated by factors ...
Zulfiya Ibragimova, Marina Frants
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BMJ Public Health, 2023 Background Health inequalities in Scotland are well documented, including the contribution of different causes to inequalities in mortality. Our aim was to estimate inequalities within a burden of disease framework, accounting for both premature ...
Gerry McCartney +6 more
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Oral health inequality in Canada, the United States and United Kingdom.
PLoS ONE, 2022 The objective of this study was to quantify the magnitude of absolute and relative oral health inequality in countries with similar socio-political environments, but differing oral health care systems such as Canada, the United States (US), and the ...
Malini Chari +5 more
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PLoS ONE, 2013 This study compared and assessed the utility of tests of inequality on a series of very large population caries datasets. National cross-sectional caries datasets for Scotland's 5-year-olds in 1993/94 (n = 5,078); 1995/96 (n = 6,240); 1997/98 (n = 6,584);
Yvonne I Blair +2 more
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Trends in Inequality in Cigarette Smoking Prevalence by Income According to Recent Anti-smoking Policies in Korea: Use of Three National Surveys [PDF]
Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, 2018 Objectives This study examined trends in inequality in cigarette smoking prevalence by income according to recent anti-smoking policies in Korea. Methods The data used in this study were drawn from three nationally representative surveys, the Korea ...
Youngs Chang +4 more
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Unequal opportunity and growth in India: A dynamic panel analysis by using survey data
Asia and the Global Economy, 2022 This study analyses the lack of robust conclusions about the association between inequality and economic growth. On the basis of ex-ante concept of inequality of opportunity, the parametric measure of unequal opportunity is used by partitioning the total
Panchanan Das
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