Social class inequalities in health and mortality have become an increasingly prominent
topic of study among sociologists, demographers, economists, and social epidemiologists …

The paper surveys the economics literature on equity in health care financing and delivery.
The focus is, for the most part, on empirical work, especially that involving international and …

Concentration indices are frequently used to measure inequality in one variable over the
distribution of another. Most commonly, they are applied to the measurement of …

Low socioeconomic status (SES) is generally associated with high psychiatric morbidity,
more disability, and poorer access to health care. Among psychiatric disorders, depression …

There is a large and persistent association between education and health. In this paper, we
review what is known about this link. We first document the facts about the relationship …

Social indicators are an important tool for evaluating a country's level of social development
and for assessing the impact of policy. Such indicators are already in use in investigating …

Inequalities across the income distribution in a variable y can be decomposed into their
causes, and changes in inequality in y can be decomposed into the effects of changes in the …

Poverty and ill-health are intertwined. Poor countries tend to have worse health outcomes
than better-off countries. Within countries, poor people have worse health outcomes than …

Background Previous studies of variation in the magnitude of socioeconomic inequalities in
health between countries have methodological drawbacks. We tried to overcome these …

▪ Abstract The environment can be thought of in terms of physical and social dimensions.
The social environment includes the groups to which we belong, the neighborhoods in …