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Quantifying changes in global health inequality: the Gini and Slope Inequality Indices applied to the Global Burden of Disease data, 1990–2017

open access: yesBMJ Global Health, 2019
Background The major shifts in the global burden of disease over the past decades are well documented, but how these shifts have affected global inequalities in health remains an underexplored topic.
Jan M Stratil   +3 more
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Measuring Distributional Inequality: Relative Body Mass Index Distributions by Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Education, United States (1999–2006) [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Obesity, 2010
Few studies consider obesity inequalities as a distributional property. This study uses relative distribution methods to explore inequalities in body mass index (BMI; kg/m2). Data from 1999–2006 from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey were used to compare BMI distributions by gender, Black/White race, and education subgroups in the ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Food and Nutrition Surveillance System (SISVAN) coverage, nutritional status of older adults and its relationship with social inequalities in Brazil, 2008-2019: an ecological time-series study [PDF]

open access: yesEpidemiologia e Serviços de Saúde, 2023
Objective: to analyze the temporal trend of Food and Nutrition Surveillance System (Sistema de Vigilância Alimentar e Nutricional - SISVAN) coverage and the nutritional status of older adults, and its correlation with indicators of social inequality in ...
Brena Barreto Barbosa   +6 more
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Are relative educational inequalities in multiple health behaviors widening? A longitudinal study of middle-aged adults in Northern Norway

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2023
IntroductionEducational inequality in multiple health behaviors is rarely monitored using data from the same individuals as they age. The aim of this study is to research changes in relative educational inequality in multiple variables related to health ...
Ana Silvia Ibarra-Sanchez   +2 more
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Country-specific maternal education gradient of stunting among children under five—slope index of inequality (SII) and relative index of inequality (RII) on magnitude of inequality in stunting.

open access: yes, 2023
Country-specific maternal education gradient of stunting among children under five—slope index of inequality (SII) and relative index of inequality (RII) on magnitude of inequality in stunting.
Rishi Caleyachetty (4420993)   +3 more
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Country-specific household wealth gradient of stunting among children under five—slope index of inequality (SII) and relative index of inequality (RII) on magnitude of inequality in stunting.

open access: yes, 2023
Country-specific household wealth gradient of stunting among children under five—slope index of inequality (SII) and relative index of inequality (RII) on magnitude of inequality in stunting.
Rishi Caleyachetty (4420993)   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Socioeconomic inequalities in access barriers to seeking health services in four Latin American countries

open access: yesRevista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2020
Objective. To present summary measures of socioeconomic inequalities in access barriers to health services in Colombia, El Salvador, Paraguay, and Peru. Methods.
Natalia Houghton   +2 more
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Country-specific household wealth gradient of wasting among children under five—slope index of inequality (SII) and relative index of inequality (RII) on magnitude of inequality in wasting.

open access: yes, 2023
Country-specific household wealth gradient of wasting among children under five—slope index of inequality (SII) and relative index of inequality (RII) on magnitude of inequality in wasting.
Rishi Caleyachetty (4420993)   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Country-specific maternal education gradient of wasting among children under five—slope index of inequality (SII) and relative index of inequality (RII) on magnitude of inequality in wasting.

open access: yes, 2023
Country-specific maternal education gradient of wasting among children under five—slope index of inequality (SII) and relative index of inequality (RII) on magnitude of inequality in wasting.
Rishi Caleyachetty (4420993)   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Economic inequality in Germany, 1500-1800 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The chapter reviews existing evidence regarding four aspects of economic inequality: relative factor rents, which relate to the factorial distribution of income and also underlie the so-called Williamson index (y/wus), which is correlated with the Gini ...
Pfister, Ulrich, Ulrich Pfister
core   +1 more source

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