This paper proposes a dominance approach to study well-being inequality across countries at the world level. We consider a class of wellbeing indices based on the three attributes considered in the HDI (Human Development Index). Indices are required to satisfy preference for egalitarian marginal distributions of income, health and education, inclination for less correlation between attributes a...

Abstract Background Many studies around the world have been carried out to establish association between deprivation and health outcomes. Both separate indicators (income, education) indices that include several ones are used. Deprivation actively used in public since mid-80s of last century. Nowadays, there is no clear classification indices. Methods In order create a taxonomy indices, scienti...

We present a class of decomposable inequality indices for ordinal data (e.g. self-reported health survey). It is characterized by well-known inequality axioms (e.g. scale invariance) and a decomposability axiom which states that an index can be represented as a function of inequality values in subgroups and subgroup sizes. The only decomposable indices are strictly monotonic transformations of ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to measure and compare the magnitude of income-related inequalities for oral and general health outcomes in Canada. METHODS Data for this study were from the 2007/09 Canadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS). The sample size consisted of 3,413 Canadians aged 18-79 (1,601 men and 1,812 women). Oral health indicators were the total number of decayed and missing ...