Socioeconomic status, health inequalities and non-communicable diseases: a systematic review

S Lago, D Cantarero, B Rivera, M Pascual… - Journal of Public …, 2018 - Springer
Aim A comprehensive approach to health highlights its close relationship with the social and
economic conditions, physical environment and individual lifestyles. However, this …

Measuring inequalities in health: what do we know? What do we need to know?

J Costa-Font, C Hernández-Quevedo - Health policy, 2012 - Elsevier
We argue that policy analysis aiming at curving inequalities in health calls for a better
understanding of what we know about its measurement pathways. Assuming that health is a …

Regional innovation ability and its inequality: Measurements and dynamic decomposition

A Xu, K Qiu, C **, C Cheng, Y Zhu - Technological Forecasting and Social …, 2022 - Elsevier
To bridge the research gap regarding the inequality of innovation ability, this paper
proposes a more reasonable proxy indicator of research and development capital, applying …

Equity in health and health care

M Fleurbaey, E Schokkaert - Handbook of health economics, 2011 - Elsevier
We discuss the conceptual foundations of measuring (in) equity in health and health care.
After an overview of the recent developments in the measurement of socioeconomic …

A longitudinal analysis of the relationship between changes in socio-economic status and changes in health

B Halleröd, JE Gustafsson - Social science & medicine, 2011 - Elsevier
In this paper we contribute to discussion on the relationship between different aspects of
socio-economic status (SES) and health. Separating different aspects of SES facilitates the …

Rising inequalities in income and health in China: who is left behind?

S Baeten, T Van Ourti, E Van Doorslaer - Journal of health economics, 2013 - Elsevier
In recent decades, China has experienced double-digit economic growth rates and rising
inequality. This paper implements a new decomposition approach using the China Health …

Lies, damned lies, and health inequality measurements: understanding the value judgments

G Kjellsson, UG Gerdtham, D Petrie - Epidemiology, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Measuring and monitoring socioeconomic health inequalities are critical for understanding
the impact of policy decisions. However, the measurement of health inequality is far from …

Health shocks, health and labor market dynamics, and the socioeconomic-health gradient in older Singaporeans

TC Cheng, S Kim, D Petrie - Social Science & Medicine, 2024 - Elsevier
Health disparities by socioeconomic status (SES) are potentially shaped by how an
individual's health status and work capacity are affected by the incidence of illness, and how …

[HTML][HTML] Socioeconomic mental health disparities and income mobility in Australia: A longitudinal factor decomposition analysis

R Hashmi, K Alam, J Gow - Economic Analysis and Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent years mental health disparity has been rising in Australia. The contributing factors
to this rising disparity are not well understood. We investigated this by measuring and …

Do socioeconomic health gradients persist over time and beyond income? A distributional analysis using UK biomarker data

K Sinha, A Davillas, AM Jones, A Sharma - Economics & Human Biology, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper analyses the relationship between health and socioeconomic disadvantage by
adopting a dynamic approach accounting for spatial and temporal changes across ten …