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Measuring inequalities in health in the presence of multiple-category morbidity indicators

✍ Scribed by Adam Wagstaff; Eddy Van Doorslaer

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1994
Tongue
English
Weight
769 KB
Volume
3
Category
Article
ISSN
1057-9230

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✦ Synopsis

This paper considers the problems which arise in seeking to measure socioeconomic inequalities in health when the health indicator is a categorical variable, such as self-assessed health. It shows that the standard approachwhich involves dichotomizing the categorical variable-is unreliable. The degree of measured inequality is found to depend on the cut-off point chosen and the choice of cut-off point to affect the conclusions one can reach about trends in or differences in health inequality. The paper goes on to propose an alternative approach which involves constructing a latent health variable and then measuring inequalities in this latent variable by means of a variant of the health concentration curve.

KEY woms-Inequalities in health, self-reported morbidity, latent variables.

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