Health Inequality : : Morality and Measurement / / Yukiko Asada.
In the last decade, there has been an explosion of academic interest in health inequality. Although it is seldom stated explicitly, research into this area is inexorably tied to questions of morality and ethics. In this study, Yukiko Asada seeks to acknowledge the role that morality and theories of...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- Part I. Framework
- 2. Which Health Distributions Are Inequitable?
- 3. What Measurement Choices Must Be Faced to Measure Health Inequity?
- 4. How Can a Health Distribution Be Summarized into One Number?
- Part II. Empirical Illustration
- 5. Bridging Concepts And Analysis
- 6. Did Health Equity Improve In The United States Between 1990 And 1995?
- 7. Conclusion
- Appendix
- Appendix A: Five Popular Health Inequality Measures
- Appendix B: Intermediate Inequality in the Who Health Inequality Index
- Appendix C: The Dead Imputation
- Appendix D: The Gini Coefficient
- Appendix E: The Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) Measure
- Appendix F: Adjustment of Household Income for Family Size and Structure
- Notes
- References
- Index