## Abstract This paper outlines a framework for comparing empirically overall health inequality and socioeconomic health inequality. The framework, which is developed for both individual‐level data and grouped data, is illustrated using data on malnutrition amongst Vietnamese children and on health
Socioeconomic and Health Inequality in Two Regions of Turkey
✍ Scribed by Alpaslan Türkkan; Hamdi Aytekin
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 182 KB
- Volume
- 34
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0094-5145
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