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Trends In Socioeconomic Inequalities In Primary Caries In China
International Dental JournalAim or purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the socioeconomic inequality of primary caries in children aged 5 years in China in 2005 and 2015 and analyze changes during ten years.
Shuo Du
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Trends in Socioeconomic Inequalities in the Distribution of Dental Caries Among Brazilian Adolescents, 2003–2023 [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de EpidemiologiaObjective: Analyze trends in socioeconomic inequalities in the distribution of dental caries among adolescents in the years 2003, 2010, and 2023. Methods: Longitudinal observational study using data from national oral health surveys.
Sophia Queiroz Marques dos Santos +1 more
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, 2012 Temporal Trends in Relative Educational Disparities Measured by Relative Risk (RR) and Relative Index of Inequality (RII).
Jiemin Ma (149704) +3 more
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PLoS ONE, 2015 BackgroundEarly detection of cancer is an effective and efficient cancer management strategy. In South Korea, the National Health Insurance administers the National Cancer Screening Program to its beneficiaries.
Hye-Min Jung +3 more
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Distributional change, reference groups and the measurement of relative deprivation [PDF]
This paper attempts to explicitly integrate the idea of reference group when measuring relative deprivation. It assumes that in assessing her situation in society an individual compares herself with individuals whose environment can be considered as ...
Silber, Jacques, Verme, Paolo
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The Gini index,the dual decomposition of aggregation functions, and the consistent measurement of inequality [PDF]
In several economic fields, such as those related to health, education or poverty, the individuals’ characteristics are measured by bounded variables. Accordingly, these characteristics may be indistinctly represented by achievements or shortfalls.
José Luis García-Lapresta +3 more
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Measuring inequality of well-being with a correlation-sensitive multidimensional Gini index [PDF]
We propose to measure inequality of well-being with a multidimensional generalization of the Gini coefficient. We derive two inequality indices from their underlying social evaluation functions.
María Ana Lugo, Koen Decancq
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Multiple sclerosis treatment coverage: an analysis based on inequality indicators [PDF]
Revista de Saúde PúblicaOBJECTIVE To assess territorial inequalities in the coverage of first-line pharmacological treatment for relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis in the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) in 2024, analyzing the regional distribution of coverage ...
Gabriela Bittencourt Gonzalez Mosegui +5 more
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Inequality and Social Welfare [PDF]
This paper provides a review of part of the literature on inequality and social welfare, with a special focus on the Gini index. The paper first presents the extended Gini index used for measuring inequality, as well as the source decomposition of the ...
Wodon, Quentin, Yitzhaki, Shlomo
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Relative Index of Inequality and Slope Index of Inequality: A Structured Regression Framework for Estimation [PDF]
, 2015 BACKGROUND: The relative index of inequality and the slope index of inequality are the two major indices used in epidemiologic studies for the measurement of socioeconomic inequalities in health.
Menvielle, G +4 more
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