Journal
JOURNAL OF HEALTH ECONOMICS
Volume 28, Issue 2, Pages 504-515Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2008.02.003
Keywords
Health inequality; Socioeconomic inequality; Concentration Index
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In recent years attention has been drawn to several shortcomings of the Concentration Index, a frequently used indicator of the socioeconomic inequality of health. Some modifications have been suggested, but these are only partial remedies. This paper proposes a corrected version of the Concentration Index which is superior to the original Concentration Index and its variants, in the sense that it is a rank-dependent indicator which satisfies four key requirements (transfer, level independence, cardinal invariance, and mirror). The paper also shows how the corrected Concentration Index can be decomposed and generalized. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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