-related inequalities in obesity. By use of the concentration index and decomposition techniques we answer the following questions: 1) Does … obesity inequality favour or disfavour the poor? 2) What factors explain this inequality at different points in time? 3) How … can the pattern of inequality over time be explained? We find that among females, inequalities in obesity favour the rich …

County, Denmark, by linking survey data to register based data. A decomposition of the concentration index was used to … explain the sources of overall income-related inequality in utilization. The decomposition approach suggests that health care …

its decomposition, socio-economic inequalities of tobacco consumption grouped by gender were estimated. The concentration …

its decomposition, socio-economic inequalities of tobacco consumption grouped by gender were estimated. The concentration …

Childhood obesity has adverse health and productivity consequences and poses negative externalities to health services … health outcomes and the intergenerational transmission of obesity. …

composition, employment level, etc.). Then, the decomposition helps to extract an absolute measure of the impact of tax … countries. Finally, the full decomposition allows quantifying the relative role of policy changes compared to all other factors …. We provide an illustration on France and Ireland and check the sensitivity of the results to the decomposition order. …

I discuss how poverty decomposition methods relate to integral approximation, which ultimately is the foundation of … every decomposition of the temporal change of a quantity into key drivers. This offers a common framework for the different … decomposition methods used in the literature, clarifies their often somewhat unclear theoretical underpinning and identifies the …