Measuring inequalities in health in the
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Adam Wagstaff; Eddy Van Doorslaer
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Article
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1994
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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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 degr