OBJECTIVE To compare the relation between mortality and income inequality in Canada with that in the United States. DESIGN The degree of income inequality, defined as the percentage of total household income received by the less well off 50% of households, was calculated and these measures were examined in relation to all cause mortality, grouped by and adjusted for age. SETTING The 10 Cana...

OBJECTIVES To see if obesity, deaths from diabetes, and daily calorie intake are associated with income inequality among developed countries. DESIGN Ecological study of 21 developed countries.Countries: Countries were eligible for inclusion if they were among the top 50 countries with the highest gross national income per capita by purchasing power parity in 2002, had a population over 3 mill...

A vexing observation among individuals with ESRD is the decreased mortality associated with attributes that, in healthy populations, confer increased risk of death. Examples include the apparent protective benefit of obesity, higher levels of LDL cholesterol, elevated systolic anddiastolicBP, and increased levels of parathyroid hormone. Potential explanations for this survival paradox include u...

This paper studies the sensitivity of various health indicators to income inequality as measured by regional Gini coefficients, using individual microdata from Finland over the period 1993-2005. There is no overall association between income and health at the regional level. We discovered that, among men, there are no significant associations between income inequality and several measures of he...

In this paper we propose to measure inequality of educational achievements by constructing a Gini index on educational attainments. We then use the proposed measure to analyse the relationship between inequality in incomes and educational achievements (in terms of both the average attainments and its concentration). Even if theoretical considerations suggest a non-linear relationship between th...

health can affects human abilities, functions and even his life quality, and hence has important role in determination of human capital through production processes. the aim of this study is to examine the effect of income inequality on selected health indices in iran during 1976-2007. in this study an attempt has been made to analyze the relationship between income inequality and the both of l...

We consider concepts and models for measuring inequality in the distribution of resources with a focus on how inequality varies as a function of covariates. Lorenz introduced a device for measuring inequality in the distribution of income that indicates how much the incomes below the u quantile fall short of the egalitarian situation where everyone has the same income. Gini introduced a summary...

We examine the relationship between changes in a country’s public sector fiscal position and inequality at the top and bottom of the income distribution during the age of austerity (2006–13). We use a parametric Lorenz curve model and Gini-like indices of inequality as our measures to assess distributional changes. Based on the EU’s Statistics on Income and Living Conditions SLIC and Internatio...