Economic Inequality and Health: Looking Beyond Aggregate Indicators [PDF]
This paper examines the relationship between relative income inequality and health in Finland, using individual microdata over the period 1993-2005. Our data allows us to analyse a large spectrum of health indicators.
Uutela, Antti +3 more
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Socioeconomic inequalities in healthcare
Socioeconomic position (SEP) – determined by factors such as education, income, and occupation – is a key predictor of health. People in a low SEP tend to have poorer health compared to those in a higher SEP. At the same time, healthcare is changing rapidly.
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Socioeconomic inequality in treatment of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) in England, 2015-2022: A population-based study. [PDF]
Br J HaematolShimizu K +4 more
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Sometimes more equal than others : how health inequalities depend on the choice of welfare indicator [PDF]
A large body of empirical work in recent years has focused on measuring and explaining socioeconomic inequalities in health outcomes and health service use.
Lindelow, Magnus
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Socioeconomic inequality in recommended childhood vaccinations in Germany: evidence from insurance claims and concentration index decomposition. [PDF]
BMC MedNussbaum C, Sundmacher L, Schuettig W.
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Which inequality matters? Growth evidence based on small area welfare estimates in Uganda [PDF]
Existing empirical studies onthe relation between inequality and growth have been criticized for their focus on income inequality and their use of cross-country data sets. Schipper and Hoogeveen use two sets of small area welfare estimates-often referred
Hoogeveen, Johannes G., Schipper, Youdi
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Educational and Socioeconomic Inequality and Cardiovascular Risk in Peru: A Cross-Sectional Analysis. [PDF]
JACC AdvDiaz-Arocutipa C +3 more
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Hypertension Control in Bangladesh: Changes, Sociodemographic Variation, and Socioeconomic Inequality from the 2017-18 to 2022 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys. [PDF]
Glob HeartMonower MM +5 more
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Inequality of opportunity and growth [PDF]
Theoretical and empirical studies exploring the effects of income inequality upon growth reach a disappointing inconclusive result. This paper postulates that one reason for this ambiguity is that income inequality is actually a composite measure of at ...
Juan G. Rodríguez, Gustavo A. Marrero
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Relationship between socioeconomic inequality and multimorbidity progression in UK Biobank data. [PDF]
Commun Med (Lond)Zhang J +7 more
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