Galal, Osman M.; Qureshi, Azhar K. - In: Social Science & Medicine 44 (1997) 12, pp. 1893-1902
A Dispersion Index for the measurement of geographical inequality in the distribution of health status indicators across space and time is proposed. The Dispersion Index is computed independently of the mean and is robust to changes in distributional shape over time. Therefore, the Dispersion...