examine self-assessed health inequality using the sample of world countries contained in the World Health Survey. We also …. Our findings indicate major heterogeneity in health inequality estimates depending on the status approach, distributional …The measurement of health inequalities usually involves either estimating the concentration of health outcomes using an …

policy analysis. We also bring to the data a recently proposed approach to measuring self-reported health inequality that … methods for making health inequality comparisons. Findings suggest significant differences in health inequality measurement …Much of the theoretical literature on inequality assumes that the equalisand is a cardinal variable like income or …

We study inequality in the distribution of self-assessed health (SAH) in the United States and China, two large … inequality trends throughout the period covering the public health insurance coverage expansions in the two countries. We find …-sensitivity parameter used; however, the regional pattern of SAH inequality is clearly associated with health-insurance coverage expansions …

Although measures of sensitivity to inequality are important in judging the welfare effects of health-care programmes … overview of the literature on the measurement of inequality aversion, examines some of the features specific of the health … find evidence that individuals exhibit a preference for more equitable health distribution, but inequality aversion …

The distribution of health inequalities appears to exhibit a different pattern when samples of developing countries are … examined. One explanation is the existence of a health Kuznets ́curve. This paper sets out as an exploratory analysis to test … the latter hypothesis of an inverse U shape pattern between both economic and health development and income inequalities …

Culture is an under-studied determinant of health production and seldom measured. This paper empirically examines the … persistence and association of health capital assessments of first and second-generation migrants with that of their ancestral … persistence of health assessments. Culture persists, rather than fades, and further, appears to strengthen over generations. We …

, the transition into DST deteriorates sleep and increases time stress, which in turn affects physical and emotional health …

We study the determinants of individual aversion to health and income inequality in three European countries and the … population in each country. Comparing levels of health- and income-inequality aversion in the UK between the years 2016 and 2020 … we find a significant increase in inequality aversion in both income and health domains. Inequality aversion is higher in …

and contestation in reducing inequality and expanding health insurance coverage. …We study the health effects of the spread of democratic institutions and the extension of voting rights in 15 European …